Alexandra Bracken Quotes

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

'The Night Watch' is a beautiful story about the pains of dealing with what you are.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

My teenage years were pretty - I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it's really confusing and your feelings are so raw.

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

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

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

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

The first album was a coming-of-age album - I don't like the phrase, but when you listen to it, you can tell I was having a hard time, that I wasn't socially relating to people.

I've been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I've written a lot is about, I don't know, teen angst feelings - feeling unsure of yourself and immature.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

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

I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.

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.

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

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.