Teens Quotes

“DETOX your mind, body, AND your contact list.”
― Supa Nova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body

“We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.”
― Danielle Rohr, Water Falls Down

“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.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“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 school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore
not
a
joke.”
― David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility

“Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?”
― Lauren Barnholdt, The Thing About the Truth

“Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe.”
― Stacey T. Hunt

“If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you're smoking pot. According to the geniuses running this place, the only reason you would skip class is if you're smoking pot, though I actually find my classes more enjoyable when I'm high.”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

“I’d felt this before, when my granddad was in the hospital before he died. We all camped out in the waiting room, eating our meals together, most of us sleeping in the chairs every night. Family from far-flung places would arrive at odd hours and we’d all stand and stretch, hug, get reacquainted, and pass the babies around.
A faint, pale stream of beauty and joy flowed through the heavy sludge of fear and grief. It was kind of like those puddles of oil you see in parking lots that look ugly until the sun hits them and you see rainbows pulling together in the middle of the mess.
And wasn’t that just how life usually felt—a confusing swirl of ugly and rainbow?”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Perfect Glass

“Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.”
― Michael Crichton, Prey

“[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed? WHAT?!
At MY school a hundred percent of the children - gay, straight, transgendered, bi, sell... or trade - WERE harassed. She's saying that fourteen percent of the gay students were NOT harassed? That seems impossible.
At MY school any one of us would have sucked Elton John's COCK at a mandatory school assembly for a fourteen percent chance of NOT being harassed.”
― Penn Jillette

“Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job.”
― Angela K. Bennett

“There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.”
― Nicole Sobon, The Yearning

“The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“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 close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh)”
― Kim Cormack

“His body was perfect. His parents were
loaded. His grades were terrible. He was a high school girl’s
dream come true.”
― Elizabeth Nicole, Chronicles of a Mermaid Out of Water

“Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.”
― Jacquelyn Mitchard, What We Saw at Night

“Change is a contact sport.”
― Romal J. Tune

“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.”
― Nicole Sobon, Submerged

“How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table.”
― Holly Thompson, Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories

“In winter this town is freezing. You step out your door in the morning and the whole place looks like one of those nature specials in which a guy brings a camcorder to the North Pole and then the camera cuts out and you hear on the news that he got eaten by a bear”
― Flynn Meaney, The Boy Recession

“The vision of this massive body of water with towering monoliths jutting straight upward to the heavens, stole our ability to think.Colors that made the wildflowers look dull, streaked up and down across the great pillars of hardened rock. The clouds and sky were mirrored in the glassy surface of the deep expanse of lake.”
― Danielle Rohr, Water Falls Down

“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.”
― Dianne F. Gray, The Eleventh Question

“He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.”
― Christy A. Campbell, The Sharing Moon

“I knew it was a terrible idea. We were supposed to be leaving our past behind us, not fully embracing it. But she was a part of my past that I wanted to hold onto. She was my only reminder of Tommy, my only remaining connection. I couldn’t let that die, not yet.”
― Nicole Sobon, Program 13

“This, Sebastian is no mere purse. And, you shouldn't call a handbag a purse.....a bag, on the other hand, is meant to be seen.”
― Candace Bushnell

“When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house.”
― Holly Thompson, Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories

“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 reality in a world thrown off balance. But he wasn’t here now.”
― Nicole Sobon, Submerged