Young Quotes
Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)
Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)
I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)
I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)
...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)
I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica
You're not safe with me."He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.
I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.
Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.
Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.
Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.
Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.
A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times.
Young adults rebel against the pre-invented/ packaged world, but sooner or later they stop and they also become proponents of the tried and true.
Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?
When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.
We're too young to want to stop living, because after all, we shouldn't stop something we haven't even started.
Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.
What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.
You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.
First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.
Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.
What if I can’t be their hero? What if I’m destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)
My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.
Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day, That feeling will have gone away.
In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.
A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.
I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".
You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen
Not all stories end happily nor tragically. Most of them just need to be continued.
We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression
When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren’t only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.