In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.
When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.
Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
Adolescence is like cactus.
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.