Quotes About Youth

A girl becomes a comma like that, with wrong boy after wrong boy; she becomes a pause, something quick before the real thing.

Despite Eleanor being twelve to her husband's twenty-eight, they had begun sleeping together straight away

May was like the Friday night of summer: all the good times lying ahead of you, bright and shiny and waiting to be lived.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

I don't have any kids, so I'm not as worried about my heirs as the rest of you, but still: I think the youth of tomorrow might be better off if they knew the physical sensation of cracking a spine and turning the page.

He's an odd duck but he's a good kid, with a good heart.

Eric turned the corner onto his old

never having worn braces.

If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn't mean we aren't content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It's like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: 'I look in the mirror and I'm surprised by what I see.' I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I've become.

You are a little girl, so you are still in milk days.

You look at me now and see an old face, but once I was beautiful.

Let them run while they can.

When you're young it's easy to confuse passion for love.

First you were the kid, no one taking you seriously. And then, all of a sudden, people much younger were in positions of authority, and you were supposed to listen to them. It was truly weird.

But what she hadn't realized was that this imaginary respect she craved was only granted to older men. She hadn't understood that when her body started to weaken and sag, when her beauty faded, she would become invisible.

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to be, to always be the person you were when you were young.

Thank goodness for grandparents. Paul never seems to get tired

I see all the kids—the popular ones, the brains, the jocks, the punks, the burnouts. They are not who they will become. This moment, teenage life, it feels like the whole universe, but it's only a millisecond.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

Candace nodded a little too hard. She loved making her ponytail swing.

are you a wedgie? Asked Massie. No. Then why are you all up in my butt? Said Massie

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr