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Quotes About Youth

A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?
~ Jenny Han
At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The shorty story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.
~ Jenny Han
it's hard to believe everything won't be this way forever—the two of us on our bikes going
~ Jenny Han
You should head back up," Jeremiah said, putting his beer down. "Your mom will kill you for drinking." "Hello. I'm not drinking," I reminded him. Clay offered me his Corona. "Here," he said, winking. He seemed drunk. I hesitated, and Conrad snapped irritably, "Don't give her that. She's a kid, for God's sake.
~ Jenny Han
What if I didn't go to school today, and we did something fun?" Kitty brightens. "Like what?" "Not you. You still have to go to school. I'm basically done. No one cares if I go anymore." "I think Daddy probably cares," Margot says.
~ Jenny Han
Peter and I were hanging out and he told me about what you guys were doing today.
~ Jenny Han
The day after graduation, the senior class packs up and goes to Nags Head for a week. Never in a million years did I think I would be going. For one thing, you have to gather up enough friends to rent a house together - like ten friends!
~ Jenny Han
He says it with all the certainty only a teenage boy can have
~ Jenny Han
First published in the US by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,
~ Jenny Han
You're teenagers. Life doesn't always work out the way you think it's going to work out...
~ Jenny Han
Sometimes I wish we'd met when we were twenty-seven. Twenty-seven sounds like a good age to meet the person you're going to spend the rest of your life with. At twenty-seven, you are still young, but hopefully you are well on your way to being the you you want to be.
~ Jenny Han
We didn't know what was ahead of us then. We were just two teenagers, looking up at the sky on a cold February night. So no, he didn't give me flowers or candy. It gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
~ Jenny Han
Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.
~ Jenny Han
When I was a kid, anytime I had to go anywhere, I ran.
~ Jenny Han
This is our start. This is the moment it becomes real. We are married. We are infinite. Me and Conrad. The first boy I ever slow danced with, ever cried over. Ever loved.
~ Jenny Han
With his fair hair and milky skin and rosy cheeks, he looks like he could be an English farmer's son. But he's slim, so maybe the sensitive farmer's son who steals away to the barn to read.
~ Jenny Han
At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them? The short story is, we grew up together. But that's more Josh's and my story. High school sweethearts? That's Peter and Gen's story. So what's ours, then? I suppose I'll say it all started with a love letter.
~ Jenny Han
One day, if I'm lucky, I'll tell some young girl all my stories, just like Stormy told me hers. And I'll get to live them again.
~ Jenny Han
Belly's gonna cry," Steven said in a singsong voice. Then he and Jeremiah started to dance a jig together. "Leave her alone," Conrad said. Steven stopped dancing. "What?" he said, confused. "You guys are so immature," Conrad said, shaking his head.
~ Jenny Han
Bu kez ka?lar?n? çatan bendim. "Tabii mi? Bu kadar kolay m?? Hayat?n?n en büyük karar? ve sen sadece tabii mi derdin?" "Evet çünkü kendimden eminim." Ona do?ru e?ilip avuçlar?m? pürüzsüz yanaklar?na koydum. "Hâlâ çocuk oldu?unu böyle anl?yorum i?te. Kendinden çok eminsin.
~ Jenny Han
Nothing, nothing felt better than the way sand felt beneath my feet. It was both solid and shifting, constant and ever-changing. It was summer.
~ Jenny Han
Son dans. ikimizde sessizdik. Henüz bitmemi?ti. Önümüzde koca bir yaz vard?. Ama lise, ikimizin buradaki birlikteli?i, bugünkü Lara Jean ve Peter k?sm? bugün sona eriyordu. Bir daha asla bu ?ekilde olmayacakt?k.
~ Jenny Han
kepimin çantamda olup olmad???n? kontrol ettim. Bugün liseden mezun olacakt?m. Bu fikir akl?ma siziverdi: büyümek.
~ Jenny Han
And then he jerks his head towards mine, and he kisses me. On the lips. His eyes are closed, mine are wide open. And then mine close too, and for a second, just for a second, I kiss him back. Then I break away. I push him off. Triumphantly he says, "Did you predict that, Lara
~ Jenny Han