Parenting Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“There's always this build-up to your eighteenth, and when it finally comes around you realize it's just the day after you were seventeen.”

— Lola Jaye

“Most teenagers couldn't wait to turn eighteen. Would I even be around by then? A new goal of mine, don't die. -Trinity”

— Angela McPherson

“I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen”

— J.D. Salinger

“I remember being on the edge of seventeen, that dangerous time between childhood and young adult when the cement is still wet in your…

— John Goode

“Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

— Gayle Forman

“They say it's a disorder when life is too sweet, and no, I am not sixteen. Not anymore and maturity has rankled the taste…

— Haig Moses

“The years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the…

— Helen Mirren

“But seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.”

— Gayle Forman

“I am 18 years old, that's for sure, OFFICIALLY... no need to hide anymore my age or to try to fake it for one…

— Deyth Banger

“When you're seventeen, it's all about the now, not the after.”

— Jodi Picoult

“There is one disappointment that has come with turning sixteen. I seem to be starting to grow.”

— Franny Billingsley

“I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.”

— Andrea Cremer