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  1. Michael Chabon _ Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces

    At least he kept trying to express himself, his real self, as motley and inchoate for now as the outfit he was wearing. And maybe that was part of the purpose of middle school: to give you something to work against, to press upon, as you attempted to fashion a self from the lump of contradictory impulses and emotions and paradigms that your mind and your culture presented.
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  2. Chuck Palahniuk _ Rant

    Everyone wants to feel special - attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are
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  3. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to him in front of the T-Birds, a Mrs. Robinson when she tells Elaine she didn't seduce Benjamin, a Daisy when she chooses Tom with the disposition of a sour kiwi over Gatsby, a self-made man, a man engorged with dreams, who didn't mind throwing a pile of shirts around a room if he wanted too.My heart landslided. My legs earthquaked.
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  4. Marisha Pessl _ Special Topics in Calamity

    One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector's Dream.
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  5. Marisha Pessl _ Night Film

    It's one of these juvenile therapy scams," he went on, sprinkling a pinch of the Golden Virginia tobacco along the rolling paper. "They advertise help for your troubled teen by staring at the stars and singing 'Kumbaya'. Instead, it's a bunch of bearded nutjobs left in charge of some of the craziest kids I've ever seen in my life-bulimics, nymphos, cutters trying to saw their wrists with the plastic spoons from lunch. You wouldn't believe the shit that went on." He shook his head. "Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of . They needed reincarnation. To and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking . be preferable to the agony they were in just by being alive.
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  6. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
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  7. Douglas Coupland _ Player One: What Is to Become

    Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.
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  9. Barbara Ehrenreich _ Living with a Wild God: A

    If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
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  10. Rebecca McNutt _ Danvers: The Reckoning

    …So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked. "Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?" "Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be… well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime… I loved it.
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  11. amy tan _ The Bonesetter's Daughter

    Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
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  12. Anne Lamott _ Plan B: Further Thoughts on

    Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
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