Jean Cocteau Quotes

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

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

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

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

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

When you come out of your teens, you think you're sussed. But you don't know who you are at 22. You're constantly trying to fit in. You get a little lost.

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

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

Early youth is a baffling time.

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?

During and shortly after puberty human beings have an indubitable tendency to loosen their allegiance to all traditional rites and social norms of their culture

Adolescence is a failed 19th century idea.