(T)he cadet was too young to believe in death after life.

and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,

I had this theory. It was based loosely on the unremarkable observation that the old are always looking back with longing while the young, with the same longing, look ahead. One man remembers what the...

There’s nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn’t even have to matter what they’re laughing about.

I thought she was older than she was, and I thought she was younger than she was. She looked older, but she acted younger, so no matter what her age was, I was surprised by...

It frightens me that I can’t do anything sensible about it.””Are you scared that you’ll wind up with a boring job where you have to see the same people every day and drink instant coffee?””I’m...

transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

However old we become, there will always remain some things young within ourselves!

Greydor will eat us!

When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn’t wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.

Feelings change fast when you’re a teenager.

I know I have a long way to go but for now I am taking my life one day at a time. Enjoying every minute of my youth as far as I could. I know...

Only the good die young, the bad petite-mort

Incarceration is the way a woman is expected to date like a soccer goalie, shuffling back and forth to block the balls constantly flying in her direction and shamed the moment she lets one slip...

Eyes so young, so full of pain … Two lonely drops of winter rain … And no tear could these eyes sustain … For too much had they seen.

Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.

We’re too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn’t stop something we haven’t even started.

My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of my thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. We had been fighting...

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

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;...

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you’re young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Kid Flash: Sorry. First time at the Hall. I’m a little overwhelmed.Robin: You’re overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn’t anyone just whelmed?

I switched the light out again. The room was totally dark, not even the starlight showing while my eyes adjusted. Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios, though I’m very fond...

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.

The closer I get, the faster I have to go. Otherwise, I might be late to the very place where I’m not even expected. Adding to my tardiness is the fact that I don’t even...

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

It’s a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that...

Learn everything you can learn now while you are young. If you think you are old now, well let me remind you that NOTHING IS TOO LATE. If you will start it now, you are...

So, is it too young for you?”He leaned over, lips coming to mine, arms pulling me into a kiss, soft at first, tentative, then … wow. The guy could kiss. I finally had to pull...

If the wild filly, “Progress,” thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, “Success,”Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

Good to know we’re all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.

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

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure you fell into. It was joy.You were called to be bridegroom,though the bride coming toward you is your shame.What chose...

There is no such thing as a bad life. That’s what I call an experienced living.

… and it was quite a sad thing,the way I watched you sleep like nothing could go wrong and I did not want to harm it, I did not want to blur it, but how...

We are young, life is vivacious, life is fun, let’s enjoy it, at the beach with loving sun.

The young man only looks to the future because he has lived little; the old man looks to the past because he has little left to live.

Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes…). We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to...

I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to...