Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

If you think back to your time as a teenager, everything was dramatic.

When I was a teenager, I was maybe a little bit angry.

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don’t like

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.

I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

I always had a hard time communicating my emotions. I'd retreat into my bedroom and listen to music. And when you're a teenager, you're dealing with all these hormones. It's like, 'What are these?'

I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.

When you're an adult, things mellow out. I think when you're a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.

During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.

Other people have suggested that I write about teens because I'm perpetually stuck in that stage of my own development. That could very well be true. I would throw out that teens and tweens are just absolutely fabulous and the most interesting people on the planet. And it is a time of high drama, and everything matters.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

A lot of my songs are personal and about me being 16 and having guys break my heart and feeling like it's the end of the world.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

“There is no drama so great as that of a teenage girl,” ... “Except yours.”

There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl.