Quotes About Youth

You shouldn't have married an elderly man." "Virgil was four and fifty when we wed," she [Daphne] said. "That is not exactly Methuselah." "How old were you?" "Nineteen and a half," she said. ""You'd have done better with two husbands of seven and twenty," he said.

70% of all inmates in California's prisons have spent time in foster care. One third of all those youth who are 'aged out' will end up in prison within one year" -Project

These children often drift from one temporary, abusive or neglectful situation to another, and often are routinely drugged to control them ("Prescription for Tragedy, "Los Angeles Times, 5-17-1998). By the time they are legally emancipated adults and return to the streets from which many were rescued, 75% have been sexually abused.

Finally the last song was sung. Now began the fun part of the evening, the part they all looked forward to. The singers rose, and Jonas pitched in to help the other young men move the benches out of the barn. Groups formed, clusters of girls who giggled together and cast quick glances toward the boys under the watchful eyes of the parents who hovered nearby.

Dating was so much easier when we were younger because we all spoke the same cryptic code and understood the rules of engagement. "Shelly, ask Suzie to ask Mary to ask Mike to ask Billy if he likes me. But tell her not to let him know that I like him. Well OK, she can tell Billy that I like him, but not that I like him, like him."

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

Kids and freedom are mutually exclusive.

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness.

wanted to live in the dark as a teenager until I realized that ugliness already makes you invisible

day when we were young and lovely.

We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. The grown-ups looked so silly framed in their living-room and kitchen windows. They complained about their days and sighed deep sighs of depression and loss. They talked about how spoiled and lucky children were these days. We will never be that way, we said, we will never say those things.

Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.

At twenty-one, Mark had been long and leanly muscled, not a spare inch on him. Rainey's gaze ran down his thirty-four-year-old body and she had to admit he was even better now. In fact, the only way to improve on that body would be to dip it into chocolate.

Why do you get to act all crazy over a guy and I don't? Anna asked. You have to earn the crazy, Grace said. You're not old enough yet.

Of all her childhood memories, her favorite was never having to pay bills.

We both made some questionable decisions," he said. "Decisions that might've been different if we'd been older and smarter. Or had anyone in our lives given enough of a shit to guide us.

There are people my age competing at the Olympics and I still try to enter Walmart through the exit-only door.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some. Ebenezar tsked. Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

Only the young think being called old is an insult," I said, still smiling. "I am what I am, regardless of what anyone calls it. No one can change it, regardless of what anyone calls it. And it mostly means that nothing has managed to kill me yet.

No, Bob. Just no. For crying out loud. She's seventeen. Better move quick, then, Bob said. Before anything starts to droop. Taste of perfection while you can, that's what I always say. ..... The perverted little creep has a point, my host.