Adolescent exceptionalism Quotes

“I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.”

“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”

“There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.”

“Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.”

“You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ”

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

“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.”

“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”

“Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.”