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

Adolescence, Childhood, London

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

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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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."

David Elkind, American Psychologist

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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."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Insecurity, thy name is teenager."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Some people are boys longer than others."

Patricia Briggs, American Author

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"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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."

Jeanne Elium, American Author

Adolescence, Conflict, Struggle

"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."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Adolescence, Pain, Growth, Acceptance

"It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident."

Caitlin Moran, British Journalist

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"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."

Louise J. Kaplan, American Psychoanalyst

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