Quotes About Youth

The women are young, young, young, liquidy and sweet-looking; they are batter, and I am the sponge cake they don't know they'll become. I stand here, a lone loaf, stuck to the pan.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced—the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.

This is why he never took these jobs anymore, Wes realized. It was too much-he couldn't save everybody-he couldn't even keep his solders alive, let alone in a line. Daran was lost, and while he was a jerk and a lowlife, he had still entrusted his life to Wes and Wes had failed him. He couldn't keep doing this, there were so many . . .and he was too young to watch so many kids die. Now he was being asked to save a few more . . . for what? So he could watch them starve?

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less then a love story for the ages found the life long romance she had yearned for all her life.

Yen Sid surveyed the young villains in front of him. "What you are about to do is very dangerous." Carlos perked up. "That's fine, my middle name is–" "Oscar" said Evie. "We know.

I read somewhere that a lot of kids of immigrants grow up quickly and are given more responsibility than other kids. Their parents tend to depend on them, mostly because the kids can speak the language better and can act as a conduit to mainstream American society. The child becomes the parent, and the parent, the child.

She couldn't have been much older than he was at nineteen, and guys who looked like him were used to pretty women smiling his way. Still, he wasn't interested in taking advantage of the fact that his girlfriend had abandoned him in Rome.

Funny thing, losing your virginity; it sounded like she'd misplaced it somewhere, like she lost it at the mall, or dropped it on the street.

If I could go back to my girlhood and its freedom, I would. But that's never possible: life pushes us forward, into more complications than we ever imagined as children.

There was always another boy, and then another, and another

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

Being young is one thing, but healthy is beautiful at any age.

And then I thought that it wasn't fair that at seventeen you could make choices that you might regret for the rest of your life because you really had no idea what you were doing and the stakes were just too high.

until she was old enough to understand about God and biology and luck, she asked.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite

Todo eso era poco: la verdadera condena era no ser sumergido inmediatamente en las lagunas de sangre del séptimo círculo; era no sufrir los dardazos de los centauros cada vez que quisiera erguirse. La condena era ser joven y estar vivo, y no poder morir ni amar, en esas tierras de nadie.

You find them in any Kingdom," she said, "if you look hard enough. Young men, and young women, too, who believe that they are in love with evil, death, and darkness, but in fact, are in love with mystery.

Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It

Your Grandfather, said Vanyel's brawny 15 year-old cousin Radevel, was Crazy.

After all, once touched by a unicorn, growing up couldn't be too hard.

I'm getting too old to hit attractive men over the head and carry them off. And the sad part is, I'm so old that's the only way I can get them!

I hate getting old. Why can't we all stay twenty until the end, then just fall over