547 Quotes About Teenagers

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 things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality.""We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass."You see what I'm up against.

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when it first falls, or maybe it’s just the way he always smells and there is no way to define it.

All these girls. If they saw the wreckage inside him they’d run.

Expired condoms are like nuclear waste: there's nothing sensible you can do with it.

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.