Teenager Quotes
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"I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job."
"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."
"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent."
"The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them."
"Will that be all?” I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped impatiently on the notepad while I waited for him to look up. Slowly his dull grey eyes roved over my body and a limp smile drew up his thin, crusted lips making him look more weasel than human. “Yep. That’d be it,” his cheerful, adolescent voice cracked.“Great,” I mumbled, walking back behind the counter."
Brandi Salazar, Faerie Tales: The Misfortune of a Teenage Socialite
"Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude."
"Healthy boys grow into healthy men."
"According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage."
"Teaching a boy to be a man is the primary job of a father."
"There’s a wound most troubled boys share, which, at its core, comes from the feeling that they don’t have their father’s unconditional love."
"When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does."
"Despite what you might believe right now, your son’s future is bright. You only need the right tools to help him get there."
"It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be."
"Healing, it turns out, is a journey. It doesn’t happen all at once."
"Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired."
"I hate the way my mother thinks."
"When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen I'd meet someone and have sexit was Fine and easynothing to doBUT Think with my bodylike a birdI Thought I was FreeTrAcey Emin"
"Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything."
"...as we are endowed. ...with rhetorics. ...none will deny. ...of innocence. ...towards scribbling. ...of love lines. ...and of lust. ...to what seems like male. ...to what seems like female. ...in those days. ...I mean nothing. ...but in high school.....even me. ...I can't deny."
"Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap"
"There are people who believe in the basic goodness of human nature. I believe in the basic evil of human nature. ~ Aarush Kashyap"
"To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor."
"In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you."
"It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me"
"Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk."
"I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you're alone. You're not alone. You're not the only one going through what you're going through, and life does get better if you want it to."
"Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven't . . ." her voice trailed off and she looked away from Jason, hoping instead to find her words among the falling raindrops. "Do you ever feel like you aren't the person you're supposed to be? That you could be a different person - and have a better life - if things had been just a little different?"
"Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise."
"The weekends are too short for sleep!"
"Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for."
"Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early.” I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. “Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting."
"Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move."
"For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror."
"For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.'And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room."
"Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs."
"So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera."
"I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it feels like I have. It’s like . . . it’s like there’s only ever been Peter. Like everyone else that came before him, they were all to prepare me for this. I think I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you. And Peter does. He sees me, and I see him."
"Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious."
"Breckin shrugs. “I’m new here. And if you haven’t deducted from my impeccable fashion sense, I think it’s safe to say that I’m…” he leans forward and cups his hand to his mouth in secrecy. “Mormon,” he whispers."
"I hated the idea of being half of an individual who could only be completed by someone else, the other half. I liked my independence." -Amya"
"I was a wedding singer as a teenager."
"After that, I’d wanted to date, but I simply didn’t know how. It seemed to come natural to everyone else, pairing up and going out. And now, well, I felt like a nonparticipant, like there was a schedule to be followed and I was so far behind I’d never get caught up."
"If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses"
"Love is always about losing something"
"Bailey took an exasperated breath and sat up in the seat. “You can’t reason with a teenage girl.”Elise’s eyebrow shot up. “Bailey, you’re a teenage girl.”“Exactly."
"Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up."
"I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes."
"You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated."
"She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face."
"I'm seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can't move. I can't think, much less move. I can't breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever."
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