Quote by Margaret Atwood

“We are no longer awkward younglings. Our enemies may be fearsome, but so are we. It is time we remind them of that.”

— Christopher Paolini

“Ah, the young! Always so convinced their problems are unique in nature and unique to themselves.”

— Anonymous

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”

— Samuel Butler

“I think they could teach us unimaginable things. Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger. I know. That's why they're afraid of you.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across.”

— Melina Marchetta

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“Adults: they were so unpredictable that nothing they did should have been able to surprise me anymore.”

— Helen Grant

“I was an at-risk youth. I was in danger of becoming an adult.”

— Jarod Kintz