Disappointment Quote by Franny Billingsley

“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 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

“Admittedly, I am only seventeen now. But some years are longer than others.”

— John Green

“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things than usual,…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Hell, we’re all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you’re a goddamn legend.”

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.”

— Jack Vance

“I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Jodi Meadows

“Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.”

— Frank Warren