I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job. —Cassandra Clare More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that . . . adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money. . . . For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? —Thomas Szasz More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands — literally thousands — of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. —Nick Hornby More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn-out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man . . . which he received in high school do not work in life. —Robert Bly More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. —Virginia Satir More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ancient peoples invented rites of passage in part to break the spell of childhood and move the initiate from the mother's lap to the lap of the world. To this day, a person must dismantle the spell of childhood or fail to find their place in life. —Michael Meade More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, he will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures. —Simone Weil More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent towards infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. —John Updike More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. —John Berger More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field. It's a scent to them, a smell. —Tori Amos More about this quote Tags: shame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it. —Jimmy Carter More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sex is hardly ever just about sex. —Shirley MacLaine More about this quote Tags: sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You discover real true love at the moment when you are making love with your partner and realize that all your life together is a single continuous and ongoing act of lovemaking, in the course of which you happen to occasionally disengage bodies altogether for hours at a time. It is not something to which you return — it is something you suddenly find that you have never really left. —Spider and Jeanne Robinson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again. —E. L. Doctorow More about this quote Tags: truth memory sex brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email