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"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
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"Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids-all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine-it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order."
"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
"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."
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
"At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time."
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"Me: 'All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel."
"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."
"I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid."
"It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either."
"IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding."
"Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't."
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