Quote by John Green

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

— Jodi Picoult

“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

“I've been 21 for many years now.”

— Stewart Stafford

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

— J.D. Salinger

“Age is just a number, as long as that number is above eighteen.”

— A.J. Truman

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

— Carol Lynch Williams

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“You can't tell a seventeen-year-old anything. They think they're immortal. They don't listen. Seventeen-year-olds have to see it for themselves.”

— Jennifer Echols

“...because when you're young, you don't really believe you'll ever be anything other than young.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“It's not about how old you are, it's about how old you feel.”

— Mimi Kirk

“is older than a month.”

— Mary Sue

“We're only seventeen." I said quietly. "Fuck seventeen." His eyes and voice were defiant. "If I were to live a thousand years, I would…

— Michelle Hodkin