#teenager

I quickly, swiftly, reach in, pluck out, and peer into the mirror. 'I am still here.' I am in the glass, in this moment. After this moment, I may not be here; I may be a person who does not know where she is, or why. I leave the kitchen table to bathe, and to dress for church. If only my closet held on its shelves an array of faces I could wear rather than dresses, I would know which face to put on today. As for the dresses, I haven't a clue. ↗

— Tim Cummings

#afterlife #astrology #brothers #children-of-celebrities #class-struggle

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#life #people #teenagers #inspirational

Change is a contact sport. ↗

— Romal J. Tune

#education #teenagers-and-parents #teens #youth-motivational-speaker #change

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me... the character. I think that's pretty cool! ↗

— Catherine Bell

#because #become #character #cool #few

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager. ↗

— Mila Kunis

#life #most #normal #normal life #plenty

I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#dreams #love #older #strength #teenagers

I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#artists #bunch #discovered #early #especially

Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#children #innovations #kids #poetry #teenagers

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#brooke #different #different roles #liberated #liberated woman