Quotes About Youth

I was too emotional to say anything. I was experiencing many "feels" as the kids on Tumblr—my computer-savvy friend CeeCee has told me about it—often say.

Once we were outside, I was so excited I could hardly stand it. "Grandmère!" I yelled. "What'd you say to them? What'd you say to convince them to let me go?" But Grandmère just laughed in this scary way and said, "I have my ways." Boy, did I ever not hate her then.

The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if pretty soon I start wearing ripped-up fishnet stockings and dyeing my hair black. Maybe I'll even start smoking and get my ears double-pierced or something. And then they'll make a TV movie about me and call it Royal Scandal. It will show me going up to Prince William and saying,'Who's the most popular young royal now, huh, punk?' and then headbutting him or something.

You're in Europe. You're young. Young people have been going to Europe on a shoestring for a hundred years.

Why hadn't she said anything? It wouldn't have been weird for her to tell me, "Pierce, back when I was in high school and had terribly poor judgment, I used to go out with an extreme douche.

Thrust into this dingy classroom we die like lampless moths locked into the desolation of fluorescent lights and metal desks. Ten minutes until the bell rings. What use is the quadratic formula in our daily lives? Can we use it to unlock the secrets in the hearts of those we love? Five minutes until the bell rings. Cruel Algebra teacher, won't you let us go?

I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy.

I broke my toe playing Olympic figure skater with Allie over winter break.

I interrupted Grandmère to inform her that I will be fifteen in four months, and also that Juliet was fourteen when she married Romeo. To which Grandmère replied, "And that relationship turned out very nicely, didn't it!

My prom life is over. And so, I am afraid, is my life.

I'd asked Dad for the millionth time if, now that I had a baby brother, I could stay in New York.........and Dad for the millionth time replied I had signed a contract and had to stick to it; when Michael said Actually, sir, legally, minors can't enter into contracts, and so according to New York State law, you cannot hold Mia to any document she might have signed, as she was under sixteen at the time, making it invalid.

Just because he played his stupid violin at Carnegie Hall when he was twelve does not make him hot.

You were young," Rainey said. "Of course you expected to escape. That kind of luck can convince you you're immortal." Caitlin touched her right arm, where the tattoo read, the whole sky. Rainey didn't know about its meaning to her. It was a line from Rita Dove's poem "Dawn Revisited." The whole sky is yours to write on, blown open

C'mon, Stink." Judy tapped Stink's knee with the hammer. Stink's foot shot out and kicked her in the leg. "Hey, Stink," said Judy. "You kicked me! Who do you think you are, a cassowary?

Moody did not want to give up summer. She did not feel like brushing her hair every day. She did not feel like memorizing spelling words. And she did not want

Sybil Ludington

Stink woke up the next morning, his bed felt as big as a country. The ceiling was up

Terrible," said Stink. "I had one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, just-like-that-kids'-book yuck days." "What's wrong?" asked Mom, coming into the room. "Stink hit his friend Webster

Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

Were you lying? I never lie, he said piously. About what? The sand, the snake. For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

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