In-Between Stage Quotes

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

Could I ask if there’s anything in between Step One and Step Two? ‘Oh ye of little faith.’

Fifteen. Sixteen was probably something, but fifteen - fifteen was a place between here and nowhere.

The experience of being in between-between the time we leave home and arrive at our destination; between the time we leave adolescence and arrive at adulthood; between the time we leave doubt and arrive at faith. It is like the time when a trapeze artist lets go the bars and hangs in midair, ready to catch another support: it is a time of danger, of expectation, of uncertainty, of excitement, or extraordinary aliveness.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

Adolescents are travelers, far from home with no native land, neither children nor adults. They are jet-setters who fly from one country to another with amazing speed. Sometimes they are four years old, an hour later they are twenty-five. They don't really fit anywhere. There's a yearning for place, a search for solid ground.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

It's tough to be 12. You're not quite a man, but you think you are.

When I came out of school, being a 'tweener' and not having a natural position was my biggest knock.

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out.