Selena Gomez Quotes

I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind begins outpacing your body or your body begins outpacing your mind and you're not quite in conversation with yourself anymore.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.

The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

You don't know who you are when you're 14.

As a teenager, I didn't really think about anything. I was just stumbling around trying to find something.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

I remember in junior high school, which is what we called it, suddenly I was looking at myself, almost through other people's eyes, and thought: how does the world see me? So that was one of the things I was really interested in, when I was writing Goodbye Stranger.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

It's interesting because, even with 'Beetlejuice,' I was an awkward kid. I started at puberty and went through it on film. Lydia was one of my favorite roles because I related to her a lot.

I'm a young woman, and I'm growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.