Teens Quotes - Page 17

• Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Healing, Chocolate

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.

  Alan Alda

  Order, Forever, Heaven

  Alan Alda (2009). “Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself”, p.9, Random House

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• The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

  Alex Sanchez

  Inspirational, Motivational, Lying

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• Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

  James Franco

  People, Culture, World

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• Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Healing, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

  William Goldman

  True Love, Sweet Love, Healing

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Healing, Dead Poets Society, World

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself, I, II, VI & LII”

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• To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Maturity, Battle

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Eye, Joy

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Thinking

  Homer (1937). “The story of Odysseus”

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• Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

  Bob Phillips

  Inspirational, Teenage, Night

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• We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

  John Green

  Hope, Teenage, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.161, Penguin

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• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)

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• On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, Stars, Healing

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I've never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, 'Am I?' but I wasn'tWell, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he's fantastic and(ahem) you know he'd be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Crush, Smart, Nice

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• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Reading, Healing, Writing

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• Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

  Linda Hogan

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Pain

  Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Creativity, Healing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother

  Homer

  Inspirational, Brother, Teenager

  Homer (2012). “The Odyssey”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• Even a fool learns something once it hits him.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Fool Me Once

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• [D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Healing, Hands

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• Sleep is good, he said, And books are better.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Healing, Sleep

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.419, Bantam

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• Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

  Charles de Lint

  Healing, Beautiful Life, Stories

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• We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

  William Faulkner

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.151, Modern Library

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