Teens Quotes

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fu...

no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. ...

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were the m...

Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They rea...

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect fo...

My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like ...

The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

Everything that happens to you matters to me.

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease...

And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighte...

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on ...

When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, t...

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

It was the flashing lights, and the noise of the machines, and the loud, loud music, all seeming to ...

We sat there smiling at each other, shimmied to a standstill, thinking about all the boys that had w...

Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all t...

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air,So there.

I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks a...

Few, if any, survive their teens.

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

The more I write stories for young people, and the more young readers I meet, the more I'm struck by...