Grumpy Quote by Carol Oates

“Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“I was not a cute teenager. I was not graceful, bubbly, or precocious. I did not cheerlead, work on the yearbook, organize spirit rallies,…

— Aisha Tyler

“I hate being a teenager." "Why?" "Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.”

— Jodi Meadows

“You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated.”

— Jenny B. Jones

“My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.”

— Avery Williams

“When you’re old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?”

— Kyra Davis

“It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people…

— Michael Chabon

“I'm old with living. So much older than almost thirteen.”

— Carol Lynch Williams

“But I have lived myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.”

— David Levithan

“When you're young, you do think that things last for ever. Unfortunately, they don't.”

— Philip Pullman

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

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“Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and…

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