Lauv Quotes

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

When you're a teenager, everything is amplified because everything is a first. The first time you feel othered, the first time you feel rejected, the first time you fall in love... it's the first time, so it's so vivid, and everything feels like the whole world almost, because it is your whole world; your world is small when you're a teenager.

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

People love teen movies because everyone can relate.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!

Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how to kiss the girl. Lots of comic relief and adolescent yearnings.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

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