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“As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”
― Jessica Simpson

“I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

“There’s no right way to be twenty-five. Because there’s no one, single, specific way to be human. As long as you keep your eyes open, as long as you keep trying new things and working hard and refusing to accept mediocrity as your fate, you will be okay. You will be happy. You will be exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
― Thought Catalog, Read This If: A Collection of Essays that Prove Someone Else Gets it, Too

“But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.”
― Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - And How to Make the Most of Them Now

“[I]t is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Our twenties are glazed in a raging insatiability. No matter how much we do, there is more to be done. More to see, more to experience, more to destruct. These years exude the rawness of life and the imperfection of youth. It’s walking around the kitchen naked with pizza at 3 a.m. It’s drunken life chats in bathroom stalls and falling in love. It’s days that feel like we have it all together and nights when it comes undone. These moments are half forgotten, lost in a blur of fury, of adventure and confusion, of black coffee and red wine. A restless restlessness like nothing we’ve known or will ever know again.”
― Soranne Floarea

“It was such a terrible time. I knew so little, had such ambitions and achieved nothing. But what spirits I was in before I went!”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, Min kamp 5

“It is difficult, when we look back on certain periods of our lives, not to succumb to romanticism and nostalgia. Even while I lived in London, though, I romanticised the city and the life I lived there; or rather, I knew it was a beautiful, romantic time of life, and that, like youth itself, the circumstances that had come so magically together would never be repeated, and that one day I would regret those years. Although I sometimes tantalise myself with the idea of moving to London again, I don't need Heraclitus to remind me that you can't step into the same city twice. The London where I lived no longer exists, any more than a dream exists upon awakening - a dream in which you were happy, in which life lived up to its promise.”
― Rob Doyle, Autobibliography

“Cassandra wanted the same night over and over again but she believed in some hidden way that if she had the same night enough times it would all crack open, and something better than love would be revealed. Something better than music.”
― Michael Cunningham, Flesh and Blood

“You ever see your reflection in a mirror and suddenly see all the little changes that have taken place since you were a teenager? It's depressing.”
― Noah Van Sciver, Saint Cole

“Tiana's head seemed to turn of its own accord, drawn to a scene playing out like the moving picture shows on the big screen at the Prytania Theatre.”
― Farrah Rochon, Almost There

“I begin to think what I did in my 20 years of life and I came with an answer that shook me to my core I was just a person living inside a body that had no clue what I was doing.”
― Cyborg she

“She knew herself for what she was: a great failure at solitude. Sluicing through her twenties illuminated only by the glow of terrestrial television, finding much to her dismay at the age of twenty-nine that she longed to be amused and to be longed for. A faint life. Eating apricots and growing bony and forgetting how to talk to people. Loneliness like a taste on the skin.”
― Julia Armfield, Salt Slow

“To shut down the police harassment I was being subjected to in my twenties required leaving the country.”
― Steven Magee

“I was blatantly targeted for harassment by a group of toxic police officers in my twenties.”
― Steven Magee

“...my twenties, which I'd treated with a cast-down-your-bucket-where-you-are approach, had thus far only brought me a string of men who were all very sad about some quality in themselves that they had no intention of making any effort to change.”
― Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections

“After we graduate, our identities just become nervousness and worrying all the time.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“These are the years of lonely nights. There may be no one to talk to for years other than a notebook, a dead role model, a pet, a lamp post, or just your sad footsteps scraping against pavement. This doesn’t make sense, but it will.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“During my twenties, my personal life was the hottest mess. The hottest. It will never be that messy again because I’ve grown up and I finally give enough of a damn about myself to avoid burning myself in that kind of fire.”
― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“This was my life now. I was twenty-one years old, doing the first year of a literature course, I had a stranger living next door to me, I had a friend I still didn't really know on the floor beneath and a girlfriend. I knew nothing, but I was still getting better and better at pretending I did.”
― Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd, Min kamp 5

“I had no future, not because it existed somewhere else but because I couldn't imagine it. That I might control my future and try to make it turn out the way I wanted was completely beyond my horizon. Everything was of the moment, I took everything as it came and acted on the basis of premises I didn't even know myself, without realising that this is what I did.”
― Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd, Min kamp 5

“I would soon be twenty-four and in the last few years my life had stood still, I hadn't developed in any direction, hadn't done anything new, I had only continued the pattern that had formed during the first few months in Bergen. When I looked around me now, I saw no openings anywhere, just more of the same everywhere. National service came heaven sent. It gave me sixteen months to defer decisions. Everything would be decided for me for more than a year, I wouldn't have any responsibility for my life, at least not that part to do with studies, work and career.”
― Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd, Min kamp 5

“All day flashes of happiness swept through me. Something fantastic had happened. We had chatted a bit, that was all. For a year she had worked here, for a year I had seen her going to and fro, and she had seen me. I had never felt any of what I felt now. Not once, not even close. Then we had met at a party, smiled at each other - and that was that? Yes that was that. How was it possible? How could it change everything? Because everything was changed, I knew that. My heart told me. And the heart is never wrong. The heart is never ever wrong.”
― Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd, Min kamp 5

“It would be so much easier to give up, to say a cold goodbye and not contact her again. All the problems, all the pain, all the defeats would finish there. But I couldn't. She stood up, it was late, time to go home, I accompanied her to the door, said bye, watched her go, she walked up the hill without turning. When I went back down I put on 'Siamese Dream' again, lay back on the bed and let my mind fill with thoughts of her”
― Karl Ove KnausgÃ¥rd, Min kamp 5

“After all my childhood years of watching him silently and revering him unquestionably, I took my twenties to spin out against him__not to refute him, but to scream out I was equal to him, a person who was just as funny, just as smart, and just as worthy of talking to.”
― Caitlin Connors, Irishman Dies from Stubbornness: Unbelievable Truths Behind the Life That Launched the Viral Obituary of Christopher Clifford Connors

“Sharing is the currency of friendship, perhaps everywhere, but especially at university.”
― Effie Black, In Defence of the Act

“Non uscire con chi non ti permette di sbronzarti e flirtare con altra gente. Se sei fatta così, ti devono accettare per quello che sei.
Simulare un orgasmo è cosa da poco e rende entrambi più contenti. Compi la tua buona azione quotidiana.
Ti senti a posto, centrata e serena quando ti innamori del tipo giusto.
La sensazione peggiore al mondo è essere scaricate.
Nel complesso non fidarti degli uomini.
La parte migliore di una relazione sono i primi tre mesi.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Pensi che la giovinezza sia sprecata nei giovani.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“Adina lies in bed anxious about college and waitressing. How will it work? Every so often a certain carbonation emerges amid whatever interaction she is having, a sense that the day has taken form and is looking around. She feels watched, as if an important membrane has unpeeled to reveal the bald futility of whoever she is with and whatever they are saying. How unlikely it is that any of it will add up to anything.”
― Marie-Helen Bertino