#teen

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#paranormal #paraphrased #young-teen #teen

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#teen

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress...feet on the floor and your knees together girl...You are trying to catch a husband, not flies ! ↗

— Amy Mah

#teenagers #teens-sex-awkward-jocks #vampire #teen

They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man who was not my father. He had taken me home to their tiny apartment above the old hardware store and done what little he knew to take care of me. It took less than six weeks for him to realize his mistake. Maybe even less than six hours, but he never abandoned me. He clung to me as though I was the last remnant of some great and powerful love. And that gave me hope that maybe my mother was really something else and not just some girl who got knocked up by a guy whose name she didn’t even know. She was something special, someone worthy of a man’s loyalty and devotion. --Rocky Evans ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#romantic-suspense #suspense #teen-romance #teen-series #urban

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. ↗

— S.G. Holster

#fiction #romantic-suspense #teen-fantasy #teen-fiction #urban-fantasy-series

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#hurt #irony #teen

For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early teens, and later as a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#teen

Why is it that when you don't want to think about something, you can't stop thinking about it? ↗

— Stella Lennon

#teens #teen

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway. ↗

— John Scalzi

#high-school #teens #teen

This will be the greatest discovery since the extinction of dinosaurs.” “Assuming dinosaurs did exist, that is,” Derkein said. Alex shook her head. “Couldn’t just let me have this moment, could you? ↗

— Alecia Stone

#teen-fiction #young-adult-fantasy #teen