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...

Okay, then, what was he like? Just give me something to go on so that I have a shot at him!”A shot at him? Are you on an elk hunt?

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither...

I’ve been asking around to find out what girls are into,” Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. “So I’m gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes.

You know where I keep the gold coin.” As if on fire, their offspring made a desperate run for their father’s study, climbing over the table and fighting each other through the door. It wasn’t...

If you have never been saved,you need to stop right where you are and admit to God that you are a sinner in need of salvation. Then ask Him for the gift of eternal life...

One of my pet peeves was when an adult imagined they had to encapsulate Life for you, hand you Life in a jar, in an eyedropper, in a penguin paperweight full of snow-A Collector’s Dream.

We’ve got our heads pulled low inside of our hooded sweatshirts and our eyes are shifty. We look exactly like you’d expect someone to look if they were minutes away from committing a major crime.

To be or not to be tethered to the sordid, sickly, stinking, sappy apron strings of Hollywood and its endless fondness for fu**ing your sh** up. If Shakespeare were alive today, I bet he’d write...

We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not...

It’s easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don’t think about.

Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.

Post-adolescent Expert SyndromeThe tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die...

They’re really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once again how she is the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and that if we were...

.Ensuring that young people get the rightinformation that will enable them make the rightchoices is a responsibility all citizens must takeseriously

Sigo pensando que hubiera sido mejor ser un niño para toda la vida, sin ninguna preocupación, sin ninguna obligación, sin el latente deseo de querer ser tan igual pero muy distinto de los demás. La...

The hard way is my favorite way to learn.

For in today’s generation of teenagers finding acceptance is hard, especially for those who dare to be different-then it’s impossible.

My darling goddaughter, Olivia, was the little girl of my friends, Max and Jeff. She was turning four, and it was time to transition her from her shortened toddler bed to a full-size big girl...

When a boy’s first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

[In reference to vaginas] Someone saying you’re “too loose”? Maybe that person’s previous experience has been with women who weren’t aroused (which, in the case of young adults, ins’t that unusual)…Since many people think that...

Juno MacGuff: I don’t know what kind of girl I am.

I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

The confusing lesson whipped Frankie’s anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue – the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste...

Sometimes I wish I could just be like everyone else my age and not think at all.

As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around...

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all...

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw...

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking...

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. ‘I am still here.’ I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be...