Quotes About Youth

I didn't know then, how important this boy would become to me and to the people I love the most. But even if I had known, what could I have done differently?

She thinks getting serious when you're young is a bad idea. It has nothing to do with you. I told her, just because it didn't work out with you and Dad, it doesn't mean it'll be like that for us. I'm nothing like my dad. And you're nothing like my mom.

Does this vision feel in line with what you were thinking?

I guess you could call me a late bloomer, but that implies that we're all on some predetermined blooming schedule, that there's a right or wrong way to be sixteen and in love with a boy.

As you grow up, you spend less and less time outside.

It was like something out of a movie. It feels like a long time ago now.

What would that have felt like, to have a boy do something like that for me? In the whole history of my letters, of my liking boys, not once has a boy liked me back at the same time as I liked him. It was always me alone, longing after a boy, and that was fine, that was safe. But this is new. Or old. Old and new, because it's the first time I'm hearing it.

It's all so very high school. By that I mean it's ephemeral. Even this pain will be fleeting, finite.

People are so charmed by beautiful boys. Beautiful boys get an indulgent shake of the head

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.

If this is love, no thanks, I don't want any part of it. When I'm older, I'm just going to do my own thing.

In the bottom of the desk drawer I found an old composition notebook from my Harriet the Spy days. It was colored in pink and green and yellow highlighter. I'd followed the boys around for days, taking notes in it until I drove Steven crazy and he told Mom on me.

A lot of the stuff people are wearing, the kids from school wear too. Fashion really is cyclical.

I never even thought about you before. Gen has always said that you are the best-looking boy in our grade, and I agreed, because sure, you are. But I still didn't see the allure of you. Plenty of people are good-looking. That doesn't make them interesting or intriguing or cool. Maybe that's why you kissed me. To do mind control on me, to make me see you that way. It worked. Your little trick worked. From then on, I saw you. Up close, your face wasn't so much handsome as beautiful.

Just one look across a bathroom fish tank was all it took? They knew it was a love worth dying for? Because they do not know. They believe. I guess the difference is, in those times people got married so much younger than they do now. Realistically, till death do us part probably only meant, like, fifteen or twenty years, because people didn't live as long back then.

My whole life was measured in summers.

summer romances really do happen so fast, and then they're over so fast.

Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. 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?

our favorite part of the day. We're eating Popsicles, cherry ones. My shirt is sticking to my back, and my hands feel sugary and warm, but my lips are cool. The sun is turning that fiery pink I love, and I turn to Mark the way I always do. I look at him, really look

Have you ever noticed that only boys ever take stairs two at a time?

Is she really old enough to have crushes on boys? I feel like she's too young for all that.

Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders,

I want to see the young people dance!

I guess I just got carried away with the night, with being there. I didn't want to think about home or real life.