Quotes About Youth

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Stop saying that! You sound absurd, and I don't even think you mean it. Besides, I'd never marry you," I told him. "I'm sixteen, and you're a slut, and you can't stop saying preposterous things!" "True," he admitted. He kissed me on the lips and then I closed the door.

If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is what you say while you're thinking of what you'll really say. Um suggests someone interrupted before they'd begun. Um is a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hit by a taxicab in front of a mall on the way to help pick out a prom dress for a prom she isn't even going to, for God's sake.

Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.

On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everything she was doing on Earth had seemed entirely meaningless. From Liz's point of view, the question of what her life would be was now definitively answered. The story of her life is short and pointless: There once was a girl who got hit by a car and died. The end.

Promise me, we won't ever do this again," Sadie said. "Promise me, that no matter what happens, no matter what dumb thing we supposedly perpetrate on each other, we won't ever go six years without talking to each other. Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

they were still young enough to understand time in semesters

she'd felt old, but that night, she realized she wasn't old at all. You couldn't be old and still be wrong about as many things as she'd been wrong about, and it was a kind of immaturity to call yourself old before you were.

They had become instant best friends in the way people can in their twenties.

How quickly you go from being the youngest to the oldest person in a room, she thought.

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

How could a person still be as young as he objectively knew himself to be and have had so much time pass?

If Marx at twenty-two had a problem, it was that he was attracted to too many things and people.

Sam blew out 10 candles and in the distance Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10 on her floor routine. And he almost felt like he, by blowing out the 10 candles at the precise moment that he had, had been what caused her to get the perfect 10. He fanaticized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine. If he had blown out only 9 candles, maybe the Romanian girl would have won instead.

These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

I think I don't like children because I hated being young.

But Ant was no longer a kid, and his eyes reminded Sam of his own. They had the patina of a person who had felt pain and expected to feel it again.

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

Promise me you'll always forgive me, and I promise I'll always forgive you." These, of course, are the kinds of vows young people feel comfortable making when they have no idea what life has in store for them.

The child's body moves the way a body can move before it has felt or even encountered the idea of pain.

I forget how young you are. You're still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family." "Yes, Dov," she said, trying to hide her irritation. "When you have children, you'll never be able to worry about a friend as much again," Dov said.

I forget how young you are. You're still at the age where you mistake your friends and your colleagues for family.

When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix