Sarah Dessen Quotes

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

My high school years were fun and frustrating, typical of the teen years. The most important accomplishment was meeting my wife, Ruth.

Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

I've realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people's lives - I'll probably come back to it a lot.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

I know most people don't like to be around teenagers but I do. I'm one of the only people I can think of who can't wait for my kid to be a teenager. I think being a teenager is one of the most wonderful things in the world. I really enjoyed it - just this heightened emotional state where everything is beautiful and everything is new and you're convinced that you're really going to break the mould and be different from your parents. And the best part is that you have so much more time that you didn't have as a child.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

I love being a teen because you don't have all the responsibilities of an adult yet.

When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

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.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager.

Adolescence is a failed 19th century idea.

Even in movies like 'Superbad,' they're all lovable kids.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.

With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

High school is really when I came into my own.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

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