92cb548
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Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.
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puberty
school
teenage
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David Brin |
adcbe3c
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While Owen and Miles talk sports, I people watch. And this is what I see: teenagers trying to act like adults. Or how they think adults act. But mostly they look ridiculous, and I wonder what they don't want to do something that's more fun than drinking, smoking, flirting, and making out. Why are those activities considered to be fun?
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teenage
truth
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Melody Carlson |
2a1afac
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Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
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boys
brutal
brutality
cruel
teenage
teenagers
war
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Philip Caputo |
8af855c
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At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
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coming-of-age
disturbing
fire
frightening
funny
ghost
ghoul
gives-me-the-willies
goosebumps
grief
hot-dog
humor
laugh
lonely
lord
madness
nostalgia
pyrokinesis
rescue
savior
scary
sleepaway-camp
spooky
summer-camp
teen
teenage
wiener
wiener-roast
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R.L. Stine |
6c50984
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"All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws out." "Then they'd think she was a geek," I said. "She will thank me later," Monk said. "Why would she thank you for being considered a geek?" "Don't you know anything about teenage life?" Monk said. "It's a badge of respect." "It is?" "I was one," he said. "You don't say." "A very special one. I was crowned King of the Geeks, not once, but every single year of high school," Monk said. "It's a record that remains unbroken in my school to this day." "Were there a lot of students who wanted to be King of the Geeks?" "It's like being homecoming king, only better. You don't have to go to any dances," Monk said. "You aren't even invited."
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geeks
goldberg
high-school
lee
monk
mr-monk
natalie
teenage
teenage-life
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Lee Goldberg |
7d9d306
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It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.
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hopelessness
inspiring
life-changing
love
teenage
young
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Jon Krakauer |
ece28a9
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Sexually active? Sexually ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attention, 'I am about as sexually active as a bag of spinach, and if you want to keep me on the porch and not out in the park somewhere behind the bushes, you'll keep the stupid porch light off when I come home with a boy.
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boys
bushes
father
father-daughter-relationship
funny
humerous
kissing
light
love
outrage
park
porch
sex
sexually-active
spinach
stupid
teen
teenage
teenage-girl
yelling
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
b4dbfa8
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"Kipster is a perfectly valid word," Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. "Okay, so what does it mean?" Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it... it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her. "Well Sarah's on drugs again and that's why she did it in Mario's backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid's been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there's a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won't go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and...." Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she'd learned it from Jud's death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days."
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80-s
argue
baby
boring
bullying
canada
cape-breton
coming-of-age
drama
drama-queen
eating
eighties
fighting
funny
game
gossip
growing-up
kipster
maturity
nostalgia
nova-scotia
pollution
rumors
scary
scrabble
self-harm
suicide
teenage
words
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Rebecca McNutt |
4eabe15
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As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it on, spun around in the mirror, and decided I would choose this look, this image, this identity. But eventually and without realising it, the ability to choose had gone. I had become what at first I had only pretended to be.
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christian
christianity
drugs
teenage
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
355622b
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For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent who is an orphan at this phase is in danger of never growing up.
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deception
orphan
teenage
vulnerable
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John Irving |
cbc687f
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"... MOM!" Martha finally screamed. "Mom, you've got to see these!" "Is it about Hermione?" She exclaimed, rushing into the middle of the room. Her mouth dropped open in horror when she noticed Hermione's walls. "I can't find any... polite... photos of her, mom." "Why are there ones of her eating out of dumpsters and giving seniors the finger?" "No idea," Martha replied. "Oh god... I'll get one out of my wallet," Her mom decided, hurrying out of the room frantically. ...It's funny how when one thing happens, it can make you forget about something else."
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garbage
girl
gross
photo
polite
teenage
weird
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Rebecca McNutt |