contradiction.

" 'For in its innermost depths, youth is lonelier than old age' I read this saying in some book and I've always remembered it, and found it to be true. Is it true then that grown-ups have a more difficult time here than we do ? No. I know it isn't. Older peopple have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God."

-Anne Frank

"But even these things did not bother me. I was young. And when you are young, the world bounces."

-Aidan Chambers