#tee

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #love #self-acceptance #self-esteem #wisdom

You know you love him when you can't sleep at night and get up early to talk to him the next morning. ↗

— Kayla Carson

#morning #night #sleepless-nights #teenage-love #love

It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#teen-romance #teenage-love #us #love

Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay. ↗

— Art Rooney

#collect #day #had #half #i

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy ↗

— Charles Martin

#love #rescue #tyler-steele #love

But in that moment, I didn’t want to be trusted. I wanted something far more primal. I stretched up on my tiptoes and leaned in. I closed my eyes as his scent overcame me. When his lips touched mine it felt as if he’d caressed them with a feather. It was all I could do not to wrap myself around him and do things I’d never really thought about doing before. ↗

— Sara Hubbard

#high-school #mystery #paranormal-romance #paranormal-ya #romance

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#teen #business

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-esteem #self-improvement #business

I begin to learn there are certain things I shouldn't tell her. Like when we meet boys at Dorrian's and I give mine a blow job, or the time I messed around with a boy in the back near the bathrooms. Amy wants to be intimate with boys too, but to her this kind of conduct is slutty. I suppose it is. She, like most girls, including the Jennifers, has a different relationship to boys than I do. She engages in sexual acts with them if she wants, but from my vantage point it looks like she can take them or leave them if they are not just right. She considers whether she actually likes someone before she jumps into bed with him. She isn't wracked with anxiety when there aren't any boys around. And she doesn't need them to live, which is what it feels like for me. ↗

— Kerry Cohen

#co-dependence #identity #love #promiscuity #teenagers

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#richard-denney #storytelling #teen-fiction #teen