Teen Quotes

I know what you're thinking. ‘How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,’ right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters’ book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way.

~ Isobel Irons

It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.

~ Becky Albertalli

You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us

~ John Green

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.

~ Teresa Lo

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

~ Vera Brosgol

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.

~ Magenta Periwinkle

Neither of us fit in, so instead we fit together.

~ Julia Day

Mom let go of us and leaned back so she could look us both in the eye. “No more spending the night in the tree fort, you two.

~ Danielle Lee Zwissler

The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame is the same shape as a falling tear. She's been sensitized, turned gooey in the middle. I saw it happening and I didn't do anything to stop it. From now on, she'll be writing diaries and sometimes including little poems and she'll buy gifts for her favourite teachers and she'll admire the scenery and she'll watch the news and she'll buy soup for homeless people and she'll never burn my leg hair again.

~ Joe Dunthorne

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

~ Cynthia Voigt

You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

~ Miranda Kenneally

Despite my dad's assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we'd hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she'd pretty much talked nonstop since I'd approached her and asked for a ride. I'd barely had time to explain the situation before she had launched into a dozen stories to illustrate the point that Things Happened But People Were Okay in the End.

~ Sarah Dessen

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually lands them in jail for the lucky onesand six feet under for the not so lucky.

~ Oche Otorkpa

I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

~ Sarah Ockler

It's the oldest story in the world. One day you're 17 planning for someday and then quietly, without you ever noticing, someday today. And then someday yesterday. And this is your life.

~ Brooke Davies

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

~ E. Lockhart

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

~ L.j. Smith

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

~ Magenta Periwinkle

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

~ Elizabeth Berg

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

~ Sarah Dessen

What is your definition of skank?' I ask.'A skank fucks skeezas she barely knows.

~ Megan Mccafferty

I mask my hate. I mask my pain. One thing that I can't mask is my dwindling grade point average. -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

~ Chamera Sampson

What’s the biggest problem facing teenagers today? Ourselves. We’re a generation of lazy underachievers who need to learn that hard work pays off. What’s your town known for? Cow manure! Hold for laughs... Actually Irondale is the setting of Fannie Flagg’s famous novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. Why’d you enter the Junior Miss Birmingham pageant? To win... to go to State... then Nationals... maybe get the hell out of Alabama.

~ Nadria Tucker

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

~ Lisa Michaels

What you are about to read are based on true events. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it will break your heart. Don't say I didn't warn you.

~ Melissa M. Futrell

There are many of us who live alongside others, less fortunate, watching them go through everyday suffering for one reason or another, and we’re not moving even our little finger to help them. It’s in human nature, unfortunately: for the most part, the only people we genuinely care about are ourselves. However, once in a while we encounter different species, different kind of human beings among us: full of compassion, willing and wanting to help, and doing so with joy and happiness. Those are a rarity. But you know what, my dear? Being one of them is not a special calling- it’s a choice. So what will you choose, huh?

~ Yoleen Valai

What’s going on?� Ingrid asked. “Listen, nothing bad today, please.� She pulled a chair out and sat down. Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. “I’m just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.� Ingrid busted out with a laugh. “I wouldn’t call her that,� she said. “That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. “What did the brat do this time?� She set her glass down.

~ Taylor Keys

Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.

~ S.r. Crawford

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley

A lot of teenagers today are influenced by the media’s depiction of perfection. I want readers to understand they don’t have to follow the unofficial laws society creates, to be liked by others.

~ Erica Sehyun Song

You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you. The blue rose is lonely, lost and awaits someone special to believe in them; the same feeling I got from you the day we met. Blue roses are incomprehensible and mysterious. And so are you.

~ S.r. Crawford

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.

~ Gayle Forman

Why did it have to be such a shameful secret? Hadn’t I been potty-trained and taught to chew with my mouth closed? So what was the freaking big deal about having sex? Wasn’t it essential to the survival of our darn, hypocritical species?

~ Gaia B. Amman

There is nothing harder than telling your own mother you’re everything she hoped you were not.

~ Gaia B. Amman

There's maybe nothing nicer than somebody just coming straight out and showing you they like you.

~ Tim Federle

It’s not an ordinary cash wash, Jake,” Jean smiled. “C’est très spécial... et il a un secret!”“I understood special and secret,” Jake said. “That’s about it.

~ Zechariah Barrett

It is better to love truly at seventeen than pretend at thirty.

~ Rom Amor

You're crazy,' I say.'Aye,' Logan says. 'Crazy about you.

~ Cindy Miles