547 Quotes About Teenagers

  • Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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    Dante and I were cursed with parents who cared. Why couldn't they just leave us alone? What ever happened to parents who were too busy or too selfish or just didn't give a shit about what their sons did?

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  • Author Virginie Despentes
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    Carlito always used to say teenagers don't start drugs because they taste good, or because the kids are bored, or because they want to forget their problems, or because of their hormones, no, they get high to destroy their intelligence. Because if they kept it intact, just when it's at its peak, they wouldn't be able to bear the pain of the disgust they'd feel for their parents.

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  • Author Susan Choi
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    In high school, Karen and Sarah had done everything to their hair they could think of except take care of it. They had bleached it, shaved it, permed it, dyed it, as girls do when vandalizing themselves seems the best way of proving their bodies were theirs.

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  • Author G. Stanley Hall
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    The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.

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  • Author Алексей Сальников
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    Вера держала свой телефон, как бутерброд, будто готовясь пожрать собеседника, и давала обещания, что тоже пойдет, если и у него что-то такое случится, Аню скрючило возле двери, и она только отвечала тихо: «Да, да, сейчас».

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  • Author Julie Buxbaum
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    Whatever, it’s, like, so rude that he said all that stuff about us,” Willow says, pouting, though she doesn’t actually look upset. More like she’s posing for a selfie. Do any of them have real human emotions? Why do I suddenly feel like I’m surrounded by actors cast as teenagers? Like I’m the only one with a real and messy life.

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