Peyton List Quotes

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

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

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.

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.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

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

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.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

When you're 15, you're not really talking about the vicissitudes of fate and failed love and poetry and swordfighting - not a lot is necessarily touching on your own personal experience.

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.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

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.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

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

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

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

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

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.

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

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

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.