Teens Quotes

If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won’t listen! They simply won’t or can’t or don’t want to listen, and we kids keep winding up back in the same old frustrating, lost, lonely corner with no one to relate to either verbally or physically.

~ Anonymous

I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

~ Kara Lee Hunter

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

I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.

~ Courtney Summers

The warmth and the passion in my veins are more than enough for a hundred thirsty girls.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

-just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

~ V.c. Andrews

I reached for his other hand, which he quickly accepted and I pulled him up into a hug. I didn't know what the other kids in the room were thinking or saying or doing. And I didn't care. I had Jamie in my arms, and that was all the mattered.

~ Madison Parker

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

~ Sara Barnard

If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you're smoking pot. According to the geniuses running this place, the only reason you would skip class is if you're smoking pot, though I actually find my classes more enjoyable when I'm high.

~ Flynn Meaney

One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table.

~ Holly Thompson

But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Have you ever really wanted to be able to do something, but you came across a roadblock of some kind?You have a difficult choice. I made that choice once and it changed my whole life, by giving me experiences I never would have had if I took the easy street and had not tried.

~ Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

~ Michael Crichton

In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear

~ Flynn Meaney

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.

~ Lorde

I realized someone else might tell you you're pretty. I'd do anything to keep you away from that person.

~ Rae Hachton

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.

~ Cassandra Clare

Don't take on more student loans than your future-self can handle.

~ Carol H. Cox

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

~ Elizabeth Berg

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

Always live the adventure.

~ Christopher J. Holcroft

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

~ Sarah Dessen

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

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

~ Kelly Link

Why does she always seem to think you drive like we're holding up a bank?Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, Because that's what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, steal prescription drugs from old people, and freebase cocaine. I need to institute a policy where she stops watching 60 Minutes and pretty much all public service announcements.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

Yes, I was scared, vulnerable, and fragile and lived in books more than real life. Yet there was nothing Mom could do to make things easier for me, just worse by grounding me for life at the slightest hint of truth. Why? Because in spite of what she said she did not trust me or, to put it in her words, I did not know what was good for me.Being a teenager sucks! I might as well have been in prison.

~ Gaia B. Amman

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.

~ Charles Frazier

I thought you were just typical teenagers.”No one has ever called me typical. I can’t say I like it.

~ Sarah Nicolas