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Quotes About Youth

Your lives are set out for you. You'll become adults, then before you're old, before you're even middle-aged, you'll start to donate your vital organs. That's what each of you was created to do. You're not like the actors you watch on your videos, you're not even like me. You were brought into this world for a purpose, and your futures, all of them, have been decided.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
We were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information. But of course we'd take it in at some level, so that before long all this stuff was there in our heads without us ever having examined it properly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old, kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Even so, I believe there's still hope. I believe help might come from a place the adults haven't yet considered. But we need to do something now quickly.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I remember Laura was demonstrating to me an especially disgusting way of blowing your nose for when you really wanted to put off a boy.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Something has changed in the character of the younger generation in a way I do not fully understand, and certain aspects of this change are undeniably disturbing.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But you play that passage like it's the memory of love. You're so young, and yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
You're much the senior in years, Master Axl, but in matters of blood, it may be I'm the elder and you the youth. I've seen dark hatred as bottomless as the sea on the faces of old women and tender children, and some days felt such hatred myself.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Chân tr?i tít t?p là má»™t Ä'i?u t?t ??p khi anh còn tr?. Nhưng ??n tu?i này r?i thì anh ph?i... anh ph?i có ???c má»™t góc nhìn má»›i.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
My mother fell silent for some moments. Then she said: 'When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Pretty soon he would be stronger than she was, and bigger, some real violence in his fist. The day was coming when the ordinary demons of adolescence would wrestle with his private devils, and it could be a hell.
~ Keith Donohue
Maturity is highly overrated.
~ Kelley Armstrong
This is so cool," I said as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot? "He's a she," Mom said. "Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isn't fully formed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You guys are weird, Tori said. Simon sat on the crate beside me. That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Dad! he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. Dad! You need to get down here! (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I spend four years chasing the guy of my dreams, finally get him, and now I have to compete with a gorgeous, twenty-year-old supernatural sex fiend. ~Jaime Vegas
~ Kelley Armstrong
Curiosity is what lets a young mind grow and keeps an old mind young.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Don't talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Guess it didn't matter if it was a group home or summer camp, guys and their stomachs didn't change.
~ Kelley Armstrong
A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.
~ Kelley Armstrong
So, is it too young for you? He leaned over, lips coming to mine, arms pulling me into a kiss, soft at first, tentative, then ... wow. The guy could kiss. I finally had to pull back to catch my breath. Good answer? he said. Yep. You like them young. He flushed. That was not the message. Are you sure? Because it certainly seems-- He cut me off with another oxygen-depriving kiss.
~ Kelley Armstrong