Quotes About Youth

The origin of my body and my mind didn't matter. I, the part of me that learned, that called on my memories, that knew I'd pulled a plant like this before, that had moved this hand to do it, was fifteen years old and innocent of evil or good. Neutral. From here forward, I was blank tape; what would be recorded there, and when, and why, was up to me.

It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.

But I go back down near the water with Steppa to look for treasure. We find a white shell like a snail, but when I curl my finger inside, he's gone out. Keep it, say Steppa. But what about when he comes home?

Nursing was like being under a spell: you went in very young and came out older than any span of years could make you.

A veces estaría bien volver a hacerse pequeño y a veces grande, igual que Alicia.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

Colleen ; that was what the Irish seemed to call every young female

Wasn't it so often the girl --no matter how young-- who got blamed for having incited her molester with a look?

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.

Since I'm a cat who doesn't know what I am, I wear track pants with old-skool Nikes but Gina Lollobrigida skintight sweaters. I am caught between childhood and va-va-voom.

I thought of him, with his feet in the Chateau Marmont pool and his fork in a carrot cake. He was just a little kid. I was upset at what I had introduced him to, the records and films he didn't already know. I felt like a mother who had left syringes around the room and let her baby get hooked on hard drugs.

Now here I am, seventeen with a bullet.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village; stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that he had ever met. He slithered first one way and then another, and at last he slid off altogether and landed with a bump on the ground. Sticky Stanley and Lotta held on to one another and laughed till the tears ran down their faces. They thought it was the funniest sight in the world to see poor Jimmy slipping about on the solemn, cantering horse.

get the collection of blankets and rugs from the boat. They arranged them in the corners of the little room, and thought that it would be very exciting to spend the night there. 'The two girls can sleep together on this pile of rugs,' said Julian. 'And we two boys will have this pile.' George looked as if she didn't want to be put with Anne, and classed as a girl. But Anne didn't

I've got such a lovely feeling, said Lucy-Ann, looking the picture of happiness. You know - that feeling you get at the very beginning of a lovely holiday - when all the days spread out before you, sunny & lazy & sort of enchanted. You'll end up by being a poet if you don't look out, said Philip, from the wheel. Well, if a poet feels like I feel just exactly at this moment, I wouldn't mind being one for the rest of my life, even if it meant having to write poetry, said Lucy-Ann.

The third formers drank all this in avidly, casting sidelong glances at Esme to see how she was taking this.

2 In the fourth form

1. THE SECRET SEVEN 2. SECRET SEVEN ADVENTURE 3. WELL DONE, SECRET SEVEN 4. SECRET SEVEN ON THE TRAIL 5. GO AHEAD, SECRET SEVEN 6. GOOD WORK, SECRET SEVEN 7. SECRET SEVEN WIN THROUGH 8. THREE CHEERS, SECRET SEVEN 9. SECRET SEVEN MYSTERY 10. PUZZLE FOR THE SECRET SEVEN 11. SECRET SEVEN FIREWORKS 12. GOOD OLD SECRET SEVEN 13. SHOCK FOR THE SECRET SEVEN 14. LOOK OUT, SECRET SEVEN 15. FUN FOR THE SECRET SEVEN

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Those first form kids!' said Tessie, in disgust. 'Honestly, they ought to be in a kindergarten, the way they behave!

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I don't want to grow up,' she thought. 'There can't be anything nicer in the world than this - being with the others, having fun with them. No - I don't want to grow up!