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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
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"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."

"Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts, ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul."

"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."

"Some people are boys longer than others."

"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."

"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."

"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."

"When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business " that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."

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

"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."
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"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."

"The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not."

"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
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