Sara Zarr Quotes

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I remember the kind of teenager I was, the kind of teenager I wanted to be, and then the kind of teenagers that were all around me. Life is lived on such a big scale in those years - and such an embarrassing one as well.

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.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

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

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Being 21 years old is not easy in the sense that you're still trying to get to know yourself.

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.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

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 the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

I go through so many different phases, just like every teenage girl does.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

If I can help get anybody through puberty, I say, 'Good!'