Quotes About Youth

Of course, some might consider any get-together with Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir a wild time.

Polly Hall was thirteen but wore enough makeup to rival a 40-year-old whore.

The guy was so freaking old, he should have retired. Or died.

What happend to that Moroi boy you had in tow last time?" "Oh, he's over there," I said, flushing slightly. "I ,uh, married him

Finn stood away from all the water with his friend Dillard, who had taken the occasion to borrow one of his father's Hawaiian shirts. Finn thought he looked pretty cool.

And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children, and the grownups are nothing, and their dignity has no value.

You are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue.

Course I didn't want to be a doctor. I was going to be president only I kept it secret.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said. 'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked. 'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

Never grow up...always down.

Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power.

I bambini non sono seri come gli adulti, e ridono volentieri.

over the years i have discovered a surprising but simple truth about young ladies and it is this: the more beautiful their faces, the less delicate their thoughts.

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

I couldn't see much of her face because of the blood, but I could tell that she was lovely. She had high cheekbones and large round eyes, pale blue like an autumn sky, and her hair was short and fair. I guessed she was about nine years old.

Run along." Outside in the corridor, we made a pact

The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump.

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.

I IS ONLY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD LITTLE BOY BUT I IS GROWING A SPLENDID BUSHY BEARD AND ALL THE OTHER BOYS IS JALOUS.