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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"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."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"At seventeen, 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 became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
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"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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"Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they have only themselves to think of."
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"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"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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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families."
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