“ We aren't just defined by who we are, but by who are friends are. It's funny that we put so much importance on something that wont mean shit once we graduate. Shaun David Hutchinson
“ Just on the verge ofbecoming a woman, and in these three years and almost five months, I'dreached maturity. I was older than the mountains outside. The wisdomof the attic was in my bones, etched on my… V.C. Andrews
“ 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. Kelly Link
“ The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Socrates
“ But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special. Margaret Peterson Haddix
“ Consider, if you will, the morning boner. What a metaphor of hope and renewal! How can anyone give way to despair when one’s groin greets each day with such a gala spectacle of physical optimism? C.D. Payne
“ How embarrassing that she ever did something that silly. But, good God, she was seventeen. At that age, we're mostly high-pitched and crazy. All urgent chemicals raging around the blood course. And th… Charles Frazier
“ When you know truly know that God loves you it won't matter when others don't. And when you know truly know that God accepts you it won't matter when others won't. Julie Chapus
“ Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it. Shannon L. Alder
“ As much as I think about sex, I can only with extreme difficulty conceive of myself actually performing the act. And here's another thing I wonder about. How could you ever look a girl in the eye afte… C.D. Payne
“ I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. Ana Monnar
“ Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, ‘Are you on the rag of something?’ And it’s like… Libba Bray
“ If I am I because I am I, and you are you because you are you, then I am I and you are you. But if I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I, then I am not I and you are not you! Menachem Mendel Morgensztern
“ He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them. Virginia Euwer Wolff
“ Don't think about waht other's think of you. Matter of fact don't think at all,just be you. Do what you feel. No one else matters. Emma Michelle
“ When you told me I didn't love youI simply thought how would you knowFor I remembered the spaces between your fingersAnd the crease between your eyesHow dare you tell meI never thought of you as mine. Sara Jones
