Teen Quotes
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"And now,"Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum."
"But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong."
"I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning."
"As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren"
"Rejection is an opportunity for your selection."
"Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall."The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of."
"Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend."
"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."
"I love you, Clary,"he said without looking at her. He was staring out into the church, at the row of lighted candles, their fold reflected in his eyes. "More than I ever--"He broke off. "God. More than I probably should. You know that, don't you?"
"No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.”Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you."
"Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it."
"I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die."
"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."
"I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen."
"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
"Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves."
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too."
"Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks."
"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent."
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other."
"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
"Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father."
"My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it."
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."
"So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!"
"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
"I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone."
"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."
"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."
"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"Everybody is a teenage idol."
"I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst."
"Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't."
"You've got to grow up sometime."
"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."
"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television."
"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival."
"If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty."
"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
"The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to."
"Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up."
"I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes."
"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did."
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