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"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."
"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"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."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell."
"My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London."
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
"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."
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"Where did you live before you came here?' I asked. 'The moon,' he said smoothly. 'We left because the place had no atmosphere."
"I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade."
"The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was."
"I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length."
"You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years."
"I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head."
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