Teenage Struggle Quotes

[About being a teenager] Like, at first it's fine and you think you have a dark side - it's exciting - and then you realise the dark side wins every time.

At 19, I didn't have a hair on my face. When I was 20, I looked 14.

My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Like me as a teen - and like many teenagers now - my characters are at a peculiar crossroads in their lives. They desperately seek freedom. But at the same time, they are constantly thwarted.

I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school.

As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

I was 13. And on my own for about 10 months, but those were long months. My stepdad wanted me out of his hair and tried to put me in a home, a hospital kind of place for kids with drug problems, which I absolutely did not belong in. So I left that place and struck out on my own...

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

As a teenager, I struggled a lot, had several major depressive episodes, and ended up dropping out of high school and getting a GED.

'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

The teenage years are ridiculously crucial and hard and, um, awkward.

I was freaking out. I had my first pimple and I was like, what is this? I didn't know what to do with myself. Now it's all gone, but it's so weird, what you put inside of your body.

I'm a teen distortion, survived abortion.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.