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Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Handsome Man's Deluxe Café

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind...

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Amy TanThe Bonesetter's Daughter

In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped ke...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people w...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen t...

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If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing ...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

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When a child reaches adolescence, there is very apt to be a conflict between parents and child, sinc...

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I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your l...

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Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Mos...

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For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebel...

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... And these childrenthat you spit onas they try to change their worldsare immune to your consultat...

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Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that so...

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Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage wit...

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Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especi...

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Douglas CouplandPlayer One: What Is to Become of Us

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger se...

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If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adol...

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone i...

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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

The sword of Gryffindor was hidden they knew not where, and they were three teenagers in a tent whos...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check...

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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more ...

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When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...

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I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real...

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When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...

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Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how...

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Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in act...

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Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has e...

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(...) I could "talk fast" -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- bu...

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I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a pro...

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The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get ...

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They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle di...

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Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's alr...

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We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

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LordeLorde - Pure Heroine Songbook

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.

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LordeLorde - Pure Heroine Songbook

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

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This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, ...

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Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

I don’t think that teenagers are the way they are because of their age. It’s because they have nothi...

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when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, inv...

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What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want...

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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now so...

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Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-...

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What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoym...

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You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-u...

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When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

It was bad, but what in high school is not? At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your wo...

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Stephenie MeyerThe Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr...

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Thomas S. MonsonPathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's ano...

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It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel...

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