“He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity… — Christy A. Campbell Copy Share Image
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As with many teens, my first jobs included babysitting and mopping floors at McDonald's. Since then, I've held jobs a diverse as… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Teens can hear their favorite musician from 10 blocks away but not their mother callin from the next room — Chijioke King Copy Share Image
“Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.” — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty… — George Michael Copy Share Image
I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference… — Chris Klein Copy Share Image
“I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper… — A.D. Evans Copy Share Image
In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“[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?… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly… — Dee Dee Ramone Copy Share Image
If you're ever invited, fellow YA authors, go. It's the first YA con I've been to that was overwhelming populated by teens.… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image