Chandra West Quotes

I've never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

You can't be 16 forever.

I had a mustache when I was 13.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Early youth is a baffling time.

At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

My teenage life was a little strange.

You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Adolescence is a border between childhood and adulthood. Like all borders, it's teeming with energy and fraught with danger.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I've done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you're never gonna marry a bad boy.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

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.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

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

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.