Justin Bieber Quotes

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Being a teenager is complicated.

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.

Coming-of-age stories in high school are exciting because everything that happens during that time is very heightened.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

This is the time it all starts, I'm telling you. Like, 16, I mean, forget it. You could just get beat up, you could go through these grueling schedules.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I think, you know, when you're a teenager, sometimes your emotions are a little bit more drastic than maybe when you're in your 20s. You sort of level out a little bit.

I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.

I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.

My rookie year, I was very immature.