Alicia Silverstone Quotes

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

I'm sure if you see things you wrote when you were 19, you cringe. I saw stuff like angry poetry that I wrote when I was mad at my father, or photos I took where I smeared period blood on myself. It's embarrassing.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

I started writing diaries, and mine were horrible. Oh, the monotony. Oh, the angst. I said, 'I don't want anyone to find these!' I destroyed them.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

With Free, we were teenagers, and, ummm, there was a lot of raging hormones.

I was like this weird, edgy 10-year-old. I was figuring out who I was, obviously at the worst time. I had braces and bangs, and it was a nightmare.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

I used to say it was painful to write lyrics about myself and looking inward.

I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.

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.

When you're teenager, your hormones and your emotions are so tumultuous and so unpredictable. You're just trying to understand yourself.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.

This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

Oh,' she said, too bone-weary to pretend: 'I would far rather that I love you as I saw yesterday I do than that I had gone on worshiping you as I did not long since.' And she turned away hastily, and did not see that Little John would reach out to her; and half-running, went to Tuck's cottage, where she could pull on her half-dry clothes, and become a proper outlaw again. At least, she thought, fighting back tears, like this I am Cecil, with a place among friends, and a task to do. I am someone. I wonder if perhaps if I am no longer Cecil, I am no one at all.

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

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.