Knut Hamsun Quotes

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

You - I don't think anybody ever forgets the first person they fell in love with. That's something that everybody remembers, and it doesn't matter what the time period is or where; I mean, those feelings are always the same.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

I am a sucker for that childhood romance narrative.

Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

We think of first love as sweet and valuable, a blessed if hazardous condition.

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

A first love always occupies a special place.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!

I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.