Susan Beth Pfeffer Quotes

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.

I started out myself rather late you see, I was 18.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

The growing-up-fast part weirdly happened between the ages of 15 and 22.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

When I went to Munich, I was perhaps a little too young.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

[Paper Girls] is very much is about how we are thinking about our past and growing up.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

I kind of grew up and started maturing.

Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over.

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.