No quiero ser un hombre -replicó Jace-, quiero ser un adolescente dominado por la angustia que no puede enfrentarse a sus demonios interiores y por eso ataca verbalmente a otras personas.

I don’t think I could have picked a worse guy to be my soul mate.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

How stupid that all I have to dois grow two squishy lumps and suddenlyI’m man’s best friend

A complex world of intrigues and power play among couples hascombined to deny young people the love and attention they trulydeserve, more and more teenagers are leaving home to peer up withbad influence which eventually...

Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with his friends threw the window wide open.He was so nineteen.

I thought you were just typical teenagers.”No one has ever called me typical. I can’t say I like it.

If the only one who can kill an angel can’t do it, then who can?’ It’s a good question, one that takes me a minute to come up with an answer. ‘Obadiah West can. Him...

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

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....

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that’s how I live now.

Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.

I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life–it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It’s a fascinating place; old enough to...

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we’re mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that’s why we...

Why can’t a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion… it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed...

They saw me. Milton’s smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in Grease...

We won’t be able to choose who we’ll have to talk to in order to keep advancing in life. We won’t always like them, and they will most likely not like us back either, so...

She actually isn’t so bad, now that I’m getting to know her. She’s just a little messy on the outside. But aren’t we all?

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don’t say that to be mean- I don’t. There was...

If you find the dividing line between fairy tales and reality, let me know. In my mind, the two run together, even though the intersections aren’t always obvious. The girl sitting quietly in class or...

I wish they’d conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn’t. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there...

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.

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...