Teen Quotes

I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

~ Niki Burnham

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

~ Tom Upton

Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever be a time when she could use other kinds of power. She missed it. It felt like part of her had been injected with novocaine and was totally numb. Almost dead (p.35).

~ Melinda Metz

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

~ Margaret A. Edwards

We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote's head. We were heading out to stop Satan's son and save the world from certain destruction. Piece of cake.

~ Terri Clark

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

~ Christina Lauren

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

~ Christina Lauren

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

~ Christina Lauren

He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.

~ Christina Lauren

I can't read him. I can't grasp him. I have no idea what he's thinking and if he's messing with me or if he really is this good, but never before have I wanted so fiercely to learn forward and put my mouth on someone's neck, begging them to want me.

~ Christina Lauren

Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending, or maybe we've just been hit by a meteor and this is the rapture and I'm given one last perfect moment before I'm sent to purgatory and he;s sent somewhere much, much better.It isn't his first kiss - I know that - but it's his first real one.

~ Christina Lauren

Everything feels yes.

~ Christina Lauren

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

~ Christina Lauren

The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not going to go away when you go on your mission. I'll still be here, and I'll still be thinking about all those things. I'll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I'll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren't gay.

~ Christina Lauren

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

~ Christina Lauren

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

~ Christina Lauren

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

~ Kennedy Vega

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.

~ Estelle Maskame

We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.

~ Estelle Maskame

I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.

~ Estelle Maskame

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

It’s up to you to make your dreams real.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

~ Carla Trueheart

If you're saving, you're succeeding

~ Steve Burkholder

The weekends are too short for sleep!

~ Bryant A. Loney

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

~ Bryant A. Loney

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.

~ Ashley Earley

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us feel both envious of them and sad for ourselves, intentional or not. They had activities outside of school and followers online—people of social necessity who sat at home on Friday nights and 'liked' popular posts in hopes that they, too, might one day be as attractive and personable.

~ Bryant A. Loney

And darkness will rule.

~ Ashley Earley

I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.

~ A.s. King

I understand that you want to have fun. That you like to distract yourself from life by going and doing these ridiculous things and laughing the whole time while you do them. I know you want to pretend that everything’s okay by trying your best to act normal, but I don’t. I want to sit in this house and mope around and be sad and revel in the fact that my life is complete shit from here on out.

~ John Corey Waley

Grandma's house had the atmosphere of a Tupperware box left out in the sun. Like a tropical flower, she had to be kept warm and moist at all times, or she would wilt and die.

~ Matthew Crow

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

~ Karren Renz Seña

I don't like you, Park. I think I live for you. I don't think I even breathe when we're not together. Which means when I see you on Monday morning, it's been like sixty hours since I've taken a breath. That's probably why I'm so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I do when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.

~ Shannon A. Thompson