So how did you get this job, anyway?’ I asked.’My science teacher.”Why’d he pick you?”For my brains and good looks, obviously.”Yeah, right. My social studies teacher picked me, but I can’t really figure out why.”‘For...

You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing...

Apa? WARIA? Iiih, Dennis! Sudah kubilang berapa kali, sih? Aku ini drag queen, darling, bukan waria! Drag queen itu perwujudan Madonna! Glamor, berani, berbahaya! Sementara waria itu ibarat Nicki Minaj berjakun.

My ladder’s at home.

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be...

There will come a time when a person you most likely pushed out through your vagina and nursed from yournipples, whose bottom you wiped, and whose snot and spit you cleaned up over several sleep-starved...

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.

Nobody, she felt, understood her–not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie–except her man.

We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.

Come along. Let’s get out of here and go toast to youth and vampires and rebellion.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. ‘It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will...

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

So that’s it. That’s the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year’s eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don’t know all the detatils, just the...

Before she closed the door, she hit me with this one: “I feel like it’s November first,” she said, “and I’m that discarded jack-o’-lantern whose heart and guts are splattered all over the boulevard of...

What defines you isn’t how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don’t get to meet some of the people who love God back.

It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.

Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen. ‘I’m afraid I have to agree with you,’ Elizabeth had...

Jack, I think I’m having a mid-life crisis. Oh Mom, you’re way too old to be having a mid-life crisis.

By his stripes you are healed.

No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicker like bitchy teenagers on a regular basis. In some way, though, each found it comforting; it reminded them...

What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

Don’t be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world’s greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

Sudah gue bilang: punk is only hibernating, not dead!

The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You’re never gonna fit in much kid, but it you’re troubled and hurt, what you’ve got under your shirt will make them...

Maybe I’m just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

You will need to stay calm as you witness the candy floss in your daughter’s smile harden into brittle bitchiness. You will need to muster a new resolve as your son’s fascination with Pokémon shifts...

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want...

Why does she always seem to think you drive like we’re holding up a bank?”Roswell grinned and rolled his eyes, “Because that’s what teenagers do, right? They also carve swastikas into their arms, steal prescription...

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of...

I hear a lot of people say, ‘teenagers of this generation are so lost.’ But I always wonder what they have been doing to help them discover themselves.

In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.

They rarely look at Baba — the teenagers — and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to...

This is followed by laughter because we’re in high school, which means we’re predictable and almost everything is funny, especially if it’s someone else’s public humiliation.

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.

Lilac curled her upper lip in a dead-eyed sneer, and it made my skin crawl. The girl looked like she might fillet me and have me for a snack later. She made the Dale R....

I like to write about teenagers because it’s such an uncertain and dramatic time.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation.” In reference to teenager Heather in “Carry The One

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes.

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say “I wish someone would drop a bomb on this...

Shut off the internal bashing.

Even if you love a lady, don’t say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

Let your inner DORK shine through.