Nick Hornby Quotes

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

Early youth is a baffling time.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Going through puberty as a young girl is so confusing. This monster invades your body, changes things and makes things grow, and no one tells you what's going on.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

I'm not changing to the point where suddenly I wear floor-length skirts and start playing the violin; I'm just growing up a little bit, I guess.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

Other than dying, I think puberty is probably about as rough as it gets.

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

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.

The teenage years are such a great subject because everything is heightened and on the surface, and it deals with universal emotions that we face even as we get older.

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.

Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.