teens

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
07ca8a2	Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag of something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?' Like my dad will say, 'I can't talk to you when you're hysterical.' And I'm totally not being hysterical! I'm just mad. And he's the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not.	girls teens	Libba Bray
c59f917	Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.	books inspirational reading teens	Jackson Pearce
a20a0f1	I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.	high-school teens	John Scalzi
bb261d4	Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.	directing musicals plays teens	Stephen King
c8cfd71	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 a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24)	librarian teacher teens	Keith Gray
0233fbc	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.	seventeen sixteen sweet sweet-sixteen teens	Francine Pascal
fb22702	I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?	books dark gavriel holly-black paranormal-romance tana tana-bach teens the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya	Holly Black
92f6d36	Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one's groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?	humor optimism sex teens	C.D. Payne
16d5baa	"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 for hours, thinking about blood."	blood boys dark imprisoned paranormal paranormal-romance tana tana-bach teens the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya young-adult	Holly Black
4175c71	As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's another thing I wonder about. How could you ever look a girl in the eye after you've had your winkie up her wendell? I mean, doesn't that render normal social conversation impossible? Apparently not.	satire sex teens teens-sex-awkward-jocks	C.D. Payne
339d6b3	But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.	loving puppy-love teens young-love	Margaret Peterson Haddix
5f276a5	Kids are more advanced these days. The teenage years now start at 11.	teenagers teens	Michael Crichton
e3afcf1	-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.	bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom	V.C. Andrews
55f96b2	Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?	empire fiction historical-fic kingdom love marie-victoria marriage prince princess royalty teens the-ring-and-the-crown ya	melissa de la cruz
cb92324	Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some kind of freak, when I'm not the freak; Rich is the freak. Clearly. When I grow up, that had better be understood and I had better be compensated, or I'm going to shoot myself in the head.	coming-of-age cool freak sex teenagers teens	Ned Vizzini
c03a790	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.	adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults	V.C. Andrews
2e9365c	How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.	remembering reminiscence teenagers teens	Charles Frazier
36e63c6	The teens whom [danah boyd, director of the research institute Data & Society] interviewed insisted they prefer hanging out in person to messaging on smartphones, but adults have restricted their mobility so thoroughly that they have few alternatives. The Internet has become young people's core social infrastructure because we've unfairly deprived them of access to other sites for meaningful connection. If we fail to build physical places where people can enjoy one another's company, regardless of age, class, race, or ethnicity, we will all be similarly confined.	restrictions social-infrastructure teens	Eric Klinenberg
c2bc36a	a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.	teens	Markus Zusak

07ca8a2

Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag of something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?' Like my dad will say, 'I can't talk to you when you're hysterical.' And I'm totally not being hysterical! I'm just mad. And he's the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not.

girls teens

Libba Bray

c59f917

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

books inspirational reading teens

Jackson Pearce

a20a0f1

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

high-school teens

John Scalzi

bb261d4

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

directing musicals plays teens

Stephen King

c8cfd71

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 a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24)

librarian teacher teens

Keith Gray

0233fbc

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.

seventeen sixteen sweet sweet-sixteen teens

Francine Pascal

fb22702

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

books dark gavriel holly-black paranormal-romance tana tana-bach teens the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya

Holly Black

92f6d36

Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one's groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism?

humor optimism sex teens

C.D. Payne

16d5baa

"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 for hours, thinking about blood."

blood boys dark imprisoned paranormal paranormal-romance tana tana-bach teens the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown ya young-adult

Holly Black

4175c71

As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's another thing I wonder about. How could you ever look a girl in the eye after you've had your winkie up her wendell? I mean, doesn't that render normal social conversation impossible? Apparently not.

satire sex teens teens-sex-awkward-jocks

C.D. Payne

339d6b3

But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.

loving puppy-love teens young-love

Margaret Peterson Haddix

5f276a5

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

teenagers teens

Michael Crichton

e3afcf1

-just on the verge of becoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'd reached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdom of the attic was in my bones, etched on my brain, part of my flesh.

bones brain flesh mature maturity mountains older teens wisdom

V.C. Andrews

55f96b2

Don't touch me. Don't tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don't. Don't pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word you say hurts even more. Let us just be friends, if we can start there. Can't we? Can't we at least be friends? Get to know each other a little? Before the wedding, and the bedding, when I will have to take you as my lord and husband?

empire fiction historical-fic kingdom love marie-victoria marriage prince princess royalty teens the-ring-and-the-crown ya

melissa de la cruz

cb92324

Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some kind of freak, when I'm not the freak; Rich is the freak. Clearly. When I grow up, that had better be understood and I had better be compensated, or I'm going to shoot myself in the head.

coming-of-age cool freak sex teenagers teens

Ned Vizzini

c03a790

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

adults child children condescension eyes incapable kid kids subjects teens told treated understand understanding young-adults

V.C. Andrews

2e9365c

How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And that's why we do dangerous and embarrassing things, as if simultaneously we're immortal and going to die tomorrow. And that's why we look back on that time so fondly from the dimmer years to come. Remembering the days when we were like Greek gods. Mighty and idiotic.

remembering reminiscence teenagers teens

Charles Frazier

36e63c6

The teens whom [danah boyd, director of the research institute Data & Society] interviewed insisted they prefer hanging out in person to messaging on smartphones, but adults have restricted their mobility so thoroughly that they have few alternatives. The Internet has become young people's core social infrastructure because we've unfairly deprived them of access to other sites for meaningful connection. If we fail to build physical places where people can enjoy one another's company, regardless of age, class, race, or ethnicity, we will all be similarly confined.

restrictions social-infrastructure teens

Eric Klinenberg

c2bc36a

a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.

teens

Markus Zusak