She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. Cather... Back up to his eyes.You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

I was a handful growing up.

We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.

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

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

We must tell girls their voices are important.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.