Andy Dalton Quotes

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

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.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I'm 19. I'm in the process of growing up and figuring out where I'm supposed to be in my life. But it is kind of weird when I realize that other people look to me as inspiration.

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.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.