Quotes About Youth

She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger.

Boys disobey their parents with such great regularity that it's barely worth a comment; and if yours is talented enough to rebel in such grand fashion, then you ought to consider it a point of pride that he's such a sharp lad.

But women her age, barely out of their teens and with the whole world before them, they haven't yet had time to lose the things they love. Every affair is a fairy tale or a tragedy, and either one is fine so long as the story is good. Every love is all or nothing, and even their "nothings" are poetry. They don't yet know how the years fade and stretch the highs and the lows, wearing them thin, making them vulnerable. They haven't yet known much of death.

Sometimes the advantage of being young and bright is not knowing what's impossible.

It's been said that she was young once, but never beautiful.

Children and adults are alike--it's not as if we ever outgrow our darker fears. Let's not pretend we're all so reluctant to entertain the unknown.

But I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.

There's nothing more frustrating than being in pain over the loss of a candidate and finding yourself surrounded by people ten years younger who are already married.

you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you'll look back in twenty years and howl.

Eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself at the age of twenty will, over time, prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you'll look back in twenty years and howl.

you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false.

world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been.

was there in '63, when I was barely eighteen. But now

I was intrigued. I was unattached. In my youth and sorrow, I was ready to self-destruct. So

Of this I am absolutely sure: Do not reach the era of child-rearing and real jobs with a guitar case full of crushing regret for all the things you wished you'd done in your youth. I know too many people who didn't do those things. They all end up mingy, addled, shrink-wrapped versions of the people they intended to be.

Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it.

You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear.

When you're single and in your twenties, having sex with whoever comes along is practically your job. It's biological. It's emotional. It's psychological. It's egomaniacal.

It's really condescending to tell you how young you are. It's even inaccurate. Some of you who are graduating from college are not young. Some of you are older than me. But to those of you new college graduates who are indeed young, the old new college graduates will back me up on this: you are so goddamned young. Which means about eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself will over time prove to be false.

I still can't entirely explain why I needed to leave my ex. I was tortured by this very question for years because I felt like such an ass for breaking his heart and I was so shattered I'd broken my own. I was too young to commit myself to one person. We weren't as compatible as we initially seemed.

Most of their stories were, like Geraldine's, more mundane— young love for which they alone had paid the price.

Leroy was sixteen and the oldest so he thought he was too good to drive. Let baby boys do that, he'd say.

Kids were always writing FUCK on things. Hollis Jurkowski had always wondered whether the students, ranging in age from five to twelve, really knew what it meant or whether they just wrote it because they knew the word was particularly upsetting to grownups.

And Capwell did feel it, a hot surge of power and vitality and elation. It was as if he'd just won a million bucks in a contest, had a triple orgasm, received a shot of a potent narcotic, drunk deeply from the Fountain of Youth. Simultaneously.