Quotes About Youth

Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.

a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. I was thinking, it's true. We already love each other. We already do.

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.

The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

Noel shook his head. "You think better of this scene than I do, Ruby. Don't you see how fake those girls are? Let it go. Have a laugh about it when you're older. Forget that junk." I wanted to believe him, to skip off to some punk-rock hangout and develop ironic distance and start over in a universe where it didn't matter what any of these people thought about me. But I couldn't. I just loved them.

What fun we had, how beautiful we were.

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive.

What fun we'd had, how beautiful we were.

Some boyfriends?" "Three boyfriends." "Three boyfriends is a lot." Jule shrugged. "I couldn't decide.

I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow.

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

Imogen was a New York City child: open-minded in a way Jule had seen only on television, apparently utterly confident in her own desirability as a friend and hostess.

Johnny leapt off the boat and threw his own vest on the dock. First thing, he ran up to Mirren and kicked her. Then he kicked me. Kicked the twins. Walked over to our grandparents and stood up straight. "Good to see you, Granny and Granddad. I look forward to a happy summer.

I wished we had been the kind of girls those boys would have been nice to, automatically. I'm not even sure what kind of girls that would have been, why some girls were attractive to boys and others weren't.

It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.

Tom Sawyer,

It is good to be loved, even though it will not last. It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.

I had kissed an unimportant boy or three by now. I had lost my dad. I had come here to this island from a house of tears and falsehood and I saw Gat, and I saw that rose in his hand, and in that one moment, with the sunlight from the window shining in on him, the apples on the kitchen counter, the smell of wood and ocean in the air, I did call it love.

Teníamos calor y temblábamos, éramos jóvenes y ancianos, y estábamos vivos. Yo pensaba: "Es cierto. Ya nos queremos." Ya nos queremos.

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. (p. 24)