Quotes About Youth

Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy.

Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening

One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever.

think much about girls. Considering my long, pale face and hound-dog eyes behind black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses, maybe I already knew that even through adulthood

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In

I have known her less than twenty-four hours. And the longer I know her, the more she mystifies me. She is perhaps eighteen, almost four years younger than me, but she seems much older. The things she says are often cryptic, though I feel that the meaning would be clear to me if I were wiser than I am.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe, "Lenore

I'm a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin' babies.

By the time he receives a high school degree

as a junior, he graduates with the senior class

Robert Heinlein's The Star Beast was

twenty, he's caught naked with a fifteen-year-old girl as he's teaching her how to self-inject DMT.

She was only twenty-two, and although she had not been gently used, it would be quite a few years before men stopped buying jewelry for her.

The child who, far too young, saw anarchy in the world and feared it. The child who resented being born into such a disordered world, who saw chaos and yearned to find order in it.

Parker is twenty-three years old, celebrating his birthday

and lustrous and sensuously figured. Dick Dale and the Deltones, the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Santo & Johnny, the Chantays, Jan and Dean for nostalgic background music.

I didn't want him to think I was all that young, meaning too young for Sharona

Libby is just a girl, but it was a girl of her age who raised the siege of Orléans in 1428 and broke the English army, and no one can say what a girl might have the capacity to endure or achieve.

These days, many of the younger generation lacked a serious work ethic and, having been hooked on tech and social media most of their lives, had the attention span of a Chihuahua with ADHD

On a mutual dare, they killed for the first time when they were fifteen. They enjoyed it. And satanism justified it. Gosset called it "just another way of believing.

When will I be canonized, sir?" "Smart-mouthing your elders will forever keep

not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

The mushrooms were grown in the shadow of the Washington rainforest, hand-picked by altar boys.