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

He let out a hiss of pain,then smiled that crooked, sheepish smile he always fell back on when he was caught doing something bad. “Sorry. I-I didn’t mean to. I just- I’ve been lying here...

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...

But I know not all of us will make it out of here. There is still more pain to come our way, but there is also happiness if we allow for it.

Sorry, kid. You don’t get to exist in story; you’re too different.” You don’t want to be part of our present dystopia that tells kids that if they just stopped being who they are they...

When you told me I didn’t love youI simply thought how would you knowFor I remembered the spaces between your fingersAnd the crease between your eyesHow dare you tell meI never thought of you as...

I built two forges when I was in my teens. I was just really, really into metalworking and making stuff.

I’m sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It’s just that my band needs a real bass player now. We’re not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?’That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.

If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you...

This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get...

I wished on the moon, for something I never knew.

I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so...

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.

You know, bullying,” her mother began. “I see it every day. Kids get bullied at school, they get cyber bullied, text bullied, Myface bullied.” “Oh, God!” Arista groaned. “It’s My Space or Facebook. Not Myface.

The same teen who can’t legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]…in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm work] opportunities to bring...

In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra...

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?

If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won’t listen! They...

I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.

She’s a librarian, Sim said. They’re not teachers; don’t give you half as much hassle. If there’s a fire in the school and I’ve got to choose who I’m gonna save – a teacher or...

For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I’d known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.

Careful,” he smiled, “I’m lethal.

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

His body was perfect. His parents wereloaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’sdream come true.

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

She’s a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

I looked for every loveliness. It all came true. I wished on the moon. . . for you.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there’s nothing sensible you can do with it.

Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds,” Mace mumbled.

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...

Few, if any, survive their teens

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...

I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can’t, because I’m Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

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...

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person’s teenage years lasted well into their fifties.

Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his...

I had an unfortunate habit of allowing my anger to blind me. An extremely unfortunate habit. Glate knew that, and he knew how to stop me from doing something stupid. He was my sense of...

Give me agony or give me death,I’ll take thy heart as eternal breath

It was almost painful to be different.

There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people...

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

Then there was your voiceLike a windup tin toyLike the sweetest nails on a chalkboardThat I ever heard

According to Sarah, who had gone two years ago, prom was famous for being an overpriced disappointment where most people had no fun.

I’d rather have a uncertainty than certainty. I don’t want to know what’s going to happen. It can’t be good.

We don’t speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.

There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

If you’re having a bad hair day or a bad boy day, he’ll whip up one of his yummy mango smoothies for you, sit you down, and say, “Little one, remember what’s really important in...