Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
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...
I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people....
In order to be successful, Teenagers need to be practical as challenges they are faceing in modern life are numerous and complex.
Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls
Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die. I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.
Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.
Shut off the internal bashing.
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...
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!
God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.
A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.
The boys and girls in the clique. The awful names that they stick. You're never gonna fit in much kid, but it you're troubled and hurt, what you've got under your shirt will make them pay for the thin...
The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay. Sincerely, Tiffany and Amber.
I could talk fast -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarra...
There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.