Let me give you some advice here: People who want to have the sex talk with you will act the same way as people who want to murder you. First they get you in their...

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Teen “addiction” to social media is a new extension of typical human engagement. Their use of social media as their primary site of sociality is most often a byproduct of cultural dynamics that have nothing...

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

I hated high school. I don’t trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there’s something wrong with you.

Love, really? We’re vampires, not teenagers. Lust is for the weak.

Kitabu cha ‘Kolonia Santita’ ni kitabu cha wasomi na wasiokuwa wasomi, watu wa mijini na watu wa vijijini, watu wazima, vijana na watoto. Hadhira ya kitabu hiki ni jamii nzima ya Tanzania.

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person’s teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips,...

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

I begin to learn there are certain things I shouldn’t tell her. Like when we meet boys at Dorrian’s and I give mine a blow job, or the time I messed around with a boy...

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress…feet on the floor and your knees together girl…You are trying to catch a husband, not flies !

There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when...

C’mon, let’s go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!

It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of...

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don’t have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to...

In that second, I think about running through that door and going with him. But I know that it’s not the road I’m meant for.Because we’re both still incapable of love. We’re both not ready...

We watched Vamps hunting Vamps, Vamp hunters and Witches torching Vamps, teenage girls kissing Vamps. And we giggled and swooned through it all.

It was a major and deeply embarrassing teenage revelation. It must be how straight teenage boys feel when they realize those boobs they like have heads attached to them.

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.

Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave the house because you know everyone is judging you. Where you cant even ask for directions in...

I could kiss that girl. And ya know what? I will kiss that girl. As soon as I get back to school, I’m gonna grab her, and I’m gonna kiss her.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

Love is rare and hard to find and takes years upon years to develop. Teenagers don’t fall in love.

I’d always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World’s Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don’t blame her. When her...

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

…but maybe it’s just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

Tuwape watoto wetu haki yao ya msingi ya kuwa watoto katika siku za ujana wao, kabla hawajawa watoto tena watakapokuwa wakubwa.

For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.

Sentí que el calor iba subiéndome por el cuello y que me ruborizaba. Clavé la vista en mis zapatos. Sabía que Adam me estaba mirando, y también que si alzaba los ojos me besaría. Y...

Why do you think, A.J.,” they say in unison, “that you find these boys so attractive?” I didn’t say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don’t want to hear these...

He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls...

No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You’ll have nightmares.” “She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid?” As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew...

I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. “According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have...

Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.

It you taste nice I may bite!

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

Why aren’t you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

She had golden blazing sun kissed hair, which hung down in loose, lazy spirals, a heart shaped pouted mouth, which was pink tinged with violet blushing, wide, spangled blue eyes that glimmered sparks to flicker...

Rock’n’roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages–they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they’ve got the love in their hearts, that beautiful...

In youth, our blood rises and becomes volatile. Desire, worry, and anxiety increase. External circumstances now direct the rise and fall of emotions. Will and intention become constrained by social conventions. Competition, conflict, and scheming...

When I was ten all I knew was that I hated the weird words used to describe whatever it was that was wrong with my brother—to this day I think it all happened because he...

A tercer d’ESO, la distància entre ells i elles arriba al màxim. La distància física, però sobretot la mental. Ells criden, s’empenten i escupen a terra com nens grans. Elles parlen, es mouen i es...

It was far better, he thought, just to get on with life yourself, to have your own adventures and make your own mistakes, without raising a banner over them that proclaimed: I’m this, or I’m...

Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new, red heart and make her understand that she is no longer one of...