Teens Quotes

To teach our kids what they need to know online, we have to talk to them off line.

~ Galit Breen

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals.The Panopticon

~ Jenn Fagan

It was almost painful to be different.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.

~ Cheryl Cory

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

~ John Green

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

~ Margaret A. Edwards

You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don’t come from outside sources—they come from within.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The weekends are too short for sleep!

~ Bryant A. Loney

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

~ Bryant A. Loney

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

She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn’t there a box showing a terrified teen?

~ Natalie Corbett Sampson

If she had looked into his eyes at that very moment she would have seen the inferno that she had thrown him into.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

Everything around her was in a fog; the intense light that always shone in his aqua blue eyes was the only thing in focus, but it was suddenly unknown... different... almost embarrassing.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

~ S. Elle Cameron

But do you think our futures are already determined for us?”“Why are you asking all of this? What’s going on?”I let out a small laugh. “Remember when we were in the hallway?” He nodded. “Well, Thirteen tried telling me that I couldn’t escape my fate and that there was no point in fighting the inevitable.”“Do you think it is inevitable?” he asked.“Me?” I scoffed. “No. Nothing is ever guaranteed. One minor adjustment can alter everything. Nothing is ever set in stone. As of right now, we’re all on one path: we’re all stuck inside of this hell that we’re trying to escape, and it may seem like the outcome has already been determined for us, but it hasn’t. The smallest of things could change everything. A death. Deception. Anything could force us to follow another path, and you know what? We determine that path, not fate.”“What path do you see yourself on?” Colton hopped up onto the computer desk, tucking his hands underneath his thighs.“I see us starting new lives outside of this place, far from McVeigh and his men,” I answered honestly. “But I know not all of us will make it out of here. There is still more pain to come our way, but there is also happiness if we allow for it.

~ Nicole Sobon

He’s not yet realized that by giving away nothing but barefaced lies he’s come to wither and rot inside. But she’s still looking for him into the void of his cold heart.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.

~ Terris Mcmahan Grimes

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

~ Nicole Sobon

I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn’t here now.

~ Nicole Sobon

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win.

~ Sarah C. Yung

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

~ Derek Landy

I did not see Pirahã teenagers moping, sleeping in late, refusing to accept responsibility for their own actions, or trying out what they considered to be radically new approaches to life. They in fact are highly productive and conformist members of their community in the Pirahã sense of productivity (good fishermen, contributing generally to the security, food needs, and other aspects of the physical survival of the community). One gets no sense of teenage angst, depression, or insecurity among the Pirahã youth. They do not seem to be searching for answers. They have them. And new questions rarely arise.

~ Daniel L. Everett

Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, ‘Are you on the rag of something?’ And it’s like I want to say, ‘No. I’m just pissed off right now. Can’t I just be pissed off? How come that’s not okay for me?’ Like my dad will say, ‘I can’t talk to you when you’re hysterical.’ And I’m totally not being hysterical! I’m just mad. And he’s the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

~ Libba Bray

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.

~ Roman Payne

From the time they hit middle school, they start moving away from home. They are not doing anything wrong; it's just the way they are made. They are becoming independent, and they begin redefining themselves through the eyes other people who are not in their immediate family. The older they get, the more important it is to have other voices in their lies saying the same things but in a different way.

~ Reggie Joiner

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

~ Ana Monnar

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

~ Fiona Dimas-Herd

Many parents have experienced the fact that kids don’t seem to honor their parents the way that previous generations of children did. The question we need to ask is, how did we get to this position? How did this lack of respect infiltrate even the closest family relationships? Most importantly, how can we make sure that it doesn’t ruin our bond with our own teens?

~ Fiona Dimas-Herd