If you love her. If you want her to stay. Fight for her.
Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these...
I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them...
Jack, I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. Oh Mom, you're way too old to be having a mid-life crisis.
He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.
I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to ey...
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.
Don't tell me I am the best, because then I'll get too confident and embarrass myself. But, don't tell me I am not good enough either, because then I'll doubt myself and give up. Just believe in me, a...
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die. I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
From the Q&A with the author at the end of the book.)Have any readers ever asked questions that shocked you?I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but...
It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this t...
Showing 41 to 60 of 144 results