She had not told her mother about Denys, but she had a suspicion that Mrs. Shannon knew all about it nevertheless. It was unlike her not to want to satisfy her curiosity when she came...

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that’s how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat...

Most teenage girls don’t give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long...

Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn’t make it a teen movie.

Teenagers try to hide what’s really going on in their communication online.

This whole time, I wasn’t waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken....

You’re staring,” Lana said.”Yes. I am. I’m a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

Jordana is in the umpire’s highchair.I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box.Her legs are crossed.I wait for her...

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you’re seventeen you know everything. When you’re twenty-seven if you still know everything you’re still seventeen.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it’s hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

I was hoping we could just listen to Jimmy Eat World and forget we ever grew up.

I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant.

What was in it for me? I wasn’t asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn’t she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could,...

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam –

Teenagers are complicated and at times stubborn, yes, but we are not dumb. We see the world in a different light than the rest do, and sometimes, we’re misunderstood because of it. And that’s alright....

…it really struck me that, just as people might look at me and never imagine I’d worked as a prostitute, they must look at some of those girls and see only the alienation and disaffection...

Homo Cannot Erectus

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy.

I meander and wander, like a lazy river. Gosh, why are some rivers so damn lazy? What, are they teenagers?

Hazel, you deserve a life.

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser;...

Hope, in anything but myself, is just way too dangerous right now…

Saylor and Beau worked together not like a piston head turned by a camshaft, but like the torque created from such synchronicity.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

If you can understand my silence you can understand my life too❤ ❤

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it… Though pretty soon I realized…...

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we’re so ready for our rebellious phase we can’t help but feel...

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager,...

God, don’t they teach you how to spell these days?””No,” I answer. “They teach us to use spell-check.

Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.

Sei la ragazza più intelligente che abbia mai conosciuto, la più spiritosa, e mi stupisci in tutto quello che fai. Vorrei poterti dire che sono queste le ragioni per cui mi piaci, perché questo proverebbe...

You forget what it was like. You’d swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed...

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil...

He’d been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants […], which he’d accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.

Everyone wants to feel special – attain a special status among their pears- but not too special. Most kids want to be special the same way their friends are

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Who’s out there?” I say.”Just teenagers,” my father says.”Why are they like that?””That’s just the way they are.””Will I be like that when I grow up?””You? Perish the thought.

A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen...

Education these days is making youths suffer like mental patients, but no one has anything to say about it because there is no other option to be given.

When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the...

Jon itu ibarat harimau yang terkurung aman di kandang. Kevin-lah kandangnya. Kita doakan saja harimau itu tidak akan pernah lepas.

I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasn’t all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader...

Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that...

This is the thing about school dances. They make like it’s supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it’s just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the...

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

Why hasn’t someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world’s problems already?