547 Quotes About Teenagers

Homeschool doesn’t give you a get out of teenage jail free card. It justgives you fewer opportunities to become the butt of someone’s lame Facebook joke.

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.

He loved the feel of his healthy young body coursing through the water, the weightless agility.

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

The classroom is a special place. It’s one of the few times a group of different people have to be in the same room. Outside, it’s only strangers in subway rides for a few minutes. It’s rare. We never really know people again.

The classroom is so rare. It’s one of the few times a group of different people have to be in the same room. Outside, it’s only strangers in subway rides for a few minutes. Or waiting in line for food or being in some doctor’s office. When I take the bus, everyone’s so tense. They don’t talk to each other. But to come in a room Monday to Friday, to know which people are shy, who volunteers to read, who cheats, and to laugh... There’s rarely a congregation like that.

You can have flawless skin, a pretty face, a good heart and a sharp mind and people are still not gonna think you're perfect because that's just the way it is. Unless and until you act the way people want you to, they're not gonna like you.

He’s taller than his shadow now; at odd minutes he scrapes the fading sky with the round, upturned bowl of skull that holds his matter in. No way to catch those minutes, no way to stable the seconds. He is simply growing, but not simply. There’s nothing simple about the way he’s aching and expanding.