Young Quotes
Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.
Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.
I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.
Then let me be your mercy, ” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.
I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.
Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.
Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.
Living as Wild Child, I could no longer be Debby Parker comfortably — this name that I’d been given at birth that defined me before I’d had the chance to define myself.
The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it.
I wanted to come close to fierce wild things. They seemed prehistoric, rare and sacred.
She taught me only how to need to be taken care of. I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions — to earn my own trust.
These tools were my parents’ way of saying: What you’re doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your way.
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.
I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw—the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself.
I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: the moment not doing it became more difficult and unbearable than just doing it.
It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
Remove the computer chipslodged in your brain before they convince youthat you’ve gone insane…Take a bite out of realityinstead of becominga reality byte.
I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversible reality.
Cath exhaled. Then inhaled. Her chest was so tight, it hurt both ways. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest.
I am not yet come of age, my lord. How can I be queen?” asked Constance fearfully.
The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people
I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?
An accessible introduction to the nature of political thought. Just what I always wanted.
When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton
When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.
It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.
I gotta go but... I miss you. That's all.""I miss you too", I say hugging my body tightly with the sleeves of his shirt.This... Is falling.
Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers — ambition and indigestion.
The evening that Al and I met became the night that we met. By the time we fell asleep at daybreak we were different people
Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.
A shame. As promising as a sky full'a rainbows but as useful as a bag'a dirt.
Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?
You are more beautiful at first light then most girls are dressed and glamorous." Dana Christy
There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.