#adolescence

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#gets #make #make no mistake #mistake #out

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence. ↗

— George Alec Effinger

#burial #cure #fine #just #premature

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#poetry #preserved #thus

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#believe #dissidents #i #i think #just

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#basically #because #been #camera #comfortable

I remembered that time of life when most of what matters can be summed up by the phase 'the other kids,' and it struck me as pitiful. The dread was more complex. ... Dread is a lure, and I cold feel its tug, but why? ... Perception is never passive. We are not only receivers of the world; we also actively produce it. There is a hallucinatory quality to all perception, and illusions are easy to create. [pp. 656-66] ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#life

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#awkwardness #emotion #school #emotion

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species. ↗

— Sarah Beth Durst

#angst #humour #love