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.

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.

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.

…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...

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.

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...

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 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...

So that’s how we end up helping Aviva pick out a male escort. Even Darcy is impressed with Eugene’s organization; each profile in the boy binder has two pictures, a head shot and a full-body...

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

Insecurity, thy name is teenager.

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...

I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable.

So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time.

I write love quotes for all ages—Teenagers, Young Adults, and even the Middle Ages—like between the years of 1200-1700. Erasmus loves my work. Well, probably he does, but as he’s dead you really can’t prove...

Women dress for women, if we dressed for me, we’d all be running around naked.

Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

…Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you’re a teenager—and even when you’re older—lots of people will try to tell you what...

I doubt he will be alive long enough to know Agent Smith.”Then I slammed the door.

Until kids find something worth dying for, they don’t have anything worth living for.

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now....

Juno MacGuff: Nah… I mean, I’m already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

Vomit began to spill out of me like pea soup, splattering the road with champagne and caviar, long island iced teas, of bacon appetizers and croissants, and a perfectly grilled filet mignonette. It had gone...

you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can’t trust anyone anymore, because they’re all after the same thing, and you...

The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people,...

Some are young people who don’t know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don’t know of what. They are angry, but they don’t know...