Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I didn't really feel like I knew who I was until I was 24.

I was a very protected and confused kid till 24. It was after then, that I started taking my life seriously.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I had some wonderful times in my 20s, but your 20s are hard.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

A lot of middle-aged women are children still trying to find their way.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.