#tee

The music and applause fast fading from his ears, Bruce would lay down his guitar, grit his teeth, and walk dutifuly back into his father's charred vision of the world. ↗

— Peter Ames Carlin

#music

I’m always the one who doesn’t have a date, the one guys walk up to and say, “So, is your friend, you know, with someone?” and I may not be the only girl without someone, but it feels like it sometimes. A lot of the time. ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#teenagers #young-adult #young-adult-romance #dating

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#first-kiss #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #love

It seemed so natural, receiving it, watching others receive it, assuming that the approval of others determined our worth. Then one day we found we couldn't feel any worth without it. We'd forgotten that we were gifted in ways unimaginable, created with a unique purpose like no other, that people are hurting, that we beat that same hurt and we can help them. There is no one as valuable as you. Unlearn that old lie. ↗

— Lee Goff

#self-esteem #self-worth #unworthiness #worth #worthiness

It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I know that everything I say will be directly taken out on Peeta. Result in his torture. But not his death, no nothing so merciful as that. Snow will ensure that his life is much worse than death. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#dystopia-fiction #heart-ache #teen-fiction #worried-about-others #death

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the tea! ↗

— Wei Wu Wei

#disciples #form #forms #religion #religious

All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike. ↗

— Sean Covey

#pastors #teen

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

Wesley Rush no persigue a las chicas, pero te estoy persiguiendo a ti”. Weasley Rush ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#young-adult-romance #design

No body is worth more than your body ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#fitness #health #healthy-diet #inspiration #self-awareness