Teenagers Quotes

They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once again how she is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and that if we were back in the olden times she might have been made into a goddess because she is so beautiful. Sometimes I cannot stop my mind. It's scary.

~ James Howe

Homo Cannot Erectus

~ Adham T. Fusama

Sudah gue bilang: punk is only hibernating, not dead!

~ Adham T. Fusama

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

~ Cassandra Clare

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

~ Charles Portis

Her youngest daughter shrugged. “Ain’t got no money, do we?” “I don’t understand. Why aren’t you pillaging like the rest of your kin?” “It was the Northlands, Da. Ain’t nothin’ to pillage but the crows in the trees.” “And snow,” their eldest added. “Lots and lots of snow.” Bram motioned to his study. “You know where I keep the gold coin.” As if on fire, their offspring made a desperate run for their father’s study, climbing over the table and fighting each other through the door. It wasn’t pretty.

~ G.a. Aiken

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

~ Lorrie Moore

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.

~ Marisha Pessl

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

~ Amy Tan

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don't have anything worth living for.

~ Tim Kimmel

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

~ Chuck Palahniuk

She had not told her mother about Denys, but she had a suspicion that Mrs. Shannon knew all about it nevertheless. It was unlike her not to want to satisfy her curiosity when she came upon her daughter sobbing in various parts of the house. She had asked no questions; she had simply donned the role of the heavily understanding mother, and had done a lot of shoulder-patting and given Mary an expensive evening dress from the shop. Mary had no idea how she knew, but was certain that if she had not known she would never have rested until she did.

~ Monica Dickens

Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

~ Suzanne Cowles

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

~ Jillian Dodd

The hard way is my favorite way to learn.

~ Sarah Mccarry

Women dress for women, if we dressed for me, we'd all be running around naked.

~ Jillian Dodd

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

~ Arthur Miller

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.

~ Skid Row

Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

~ Tessa Emily Hall

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

~ Jacob M. Appel

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

My darling goddaughter, Olivia, was the little girl of my friends, Max and Jeff. She was turning four, and it was time to transition her from her shortened toddler bed to a full-size big girl bed. It would be the bed where she'd have her childhood dreams and her teenage angst. I wanted it strong enough to tolerate her little girl bouncing and her teenage flouncing.It had to be perfect.

~ Amber Kell

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

~ Jessica Mitford

It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

~ Melody Carlson

This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing.

~ Mariko Tamaki

In that second, I think about running through that door and going with him. But I know that it’s not the road I’m meant for.Because we’re both still incapable of love. We’re both not ready yet.And I know that I’ll miss him. And some nights, I’ll cry in my sleep.But for now, I’m okay. And that’s all that matters.The void in my heart has finally been filled.And as the train moves farther and farther from me on the platform, I can only smile.

~ L. Jayne

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

~ Tina Fey

By his stripes you are healed.

~ Melody Carlson

...it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I'd worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection that hides their on fears and hurt.

~ Sophie Hayes

Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their car, so they're in control and you can't escape. Then they drive you someplace in the middle of nowhere.

~ Flynn Meaney

When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

~ John Green

Shut off the internal bashing.

~ Melody Carlson

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

~ John Green

Love and romance are things worth waiting for.

~ Cath Crowley

So how did you get this job, anyway?' I asked.'My science teacher.''Why'd he pick you?''For my brains and good looks, obviously.''Yeah, right. My social studies teacher picked me, but I can't really figure out why.'For your brains and good looks, obviously.''Um, thanks.' Had Aaron just complimented me? Wow.

~ Polly Shulman

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

~ Brynna Gabrielson

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

~ Marion Cotillard

Jordana is in the umpire's highchair.I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box.Her legs are crossed.I wait for her to speak.'I have two special skills,' she says.She pulls a sheaf of papers from under her bum. I recognize the font and the text boxes. It's my pamphlet.'Blackmail,' she says.She holds up her Zippo in the other hand. I can tell that she has been practising this.'And pyromania.'I am impressed that Jordana knows this word.'Right,' I say.'I'm going to blackmail you, Ol.'I feel powerless. She is in a throne.'Okay,' I say.

~ Joe Dunthorne

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation. In reference to teenager Heather in Carry The One

~ Carol Anshaw

Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen. 'I'm afraid I have to agree with you,' Elizabeth had heard her twin say mournfully, clearly distinguishing herself from the inconsiderate teenagers milling all around them.

~ Francine Pascal