Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

People forget that when you're 16, you're probably more serious than you'll ever be again. You think seriously about the big questions.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

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

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

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

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

Young, dumb, lookin' in the mirror tryin' to figure out who I’m gonna be this year.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

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.

I always think that I’m still this 13-year old boy that doesn’t really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I’ll really have to do it.

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

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 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.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.