Prom Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

“School was finally out and I was standing on a picnic table in our backyard getting ready for a great summer vacation when my…

— Jack Gantos

“The Sunday school trip: While us girls were alone, a nasty piece of work called Louise, aged about eleven, decided that it would be…

— Eskay Teel

“My mother started school when she was six and stopped the same term. She was unusual in the village, as she had a father…

— Malala Yousafzai

“One day, an unusually exciting event interrupted the rhythm of our regular middle-class teenage lives. A Russian woman, the mother of a girl in…

— Inna Swinton

“In the fall of the year I turned sixteen, I jumped out of my bedroom window and ran away. The night’s black roads wound…

— Le Thi Diem Thuy

“It was spring when it happened and the schoolroom windows were open all day long, and every afternoon after Billy left we had milk…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents’ house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had looked down…

— Adam Hall

“She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond…

— Anonymous

“As a child she had run wild, a brown-eyed and tousled-hair creature, lanky limbs scratched and bruised, among the fishing boats, the shanties and…

— Georgina Anne Taylor

“Once upon a time there was a little girl, and she told a lie to her friend’s brother so that her friend’s brother drove…

— Holly Black

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to…

— Marguerite Duras