#adolescence

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ↗

— Martha Beck

#childhood #laughter #sex

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. ↗

— Louise J. Kaplan

#adolescence #adulthood #childhood

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#adolescence #i #i write #war #write

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride. ↗

— Ron Taffel

#about #adolescence #during #even #ever

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#childhood #experience #i #inhibited #knew

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

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

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

Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I'm grown-up, I don't feel like myself anymore.' I don't tell him, but this is the scariest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. Being grown-up should feel like a big transition. It can't be something that, despite my best efforts, I've been drifting closer and closer to every summer. It needs to be a shock. I need to know at what point to stop holding on. And that moment will suck, and probably every moment after that will suck, but at least I'll know that everything that came before really was valid. I really was young and innocent. I wasn't fooling myself. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#adulthood #growing-up #life