#teenager

He hadn't suffered the eternity of the ring about to be picked up, didn't know the heart rush of hearing that incomparable voice suddenly linked with his own, the sense it gave of being too close to even see her, of being actually inside her ear. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#love #phone #phone-calls #teenager #love

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#could #enslaved #got #how #i

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own. ↗

— Doug Larson

#few #few things #more #own #satisfying

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

High school is worse than having to swim through multiple prahana filled lakes- and that's before the truckload of homework. ↗

— Taylor Gaskins

#life #teenagers #life

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#family-relationships #hormones #humor #parental-advice #parents

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. ↗

— Dan DeCarlo

#books #first #gave #her #i

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#had #her #i #me #panties

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#i #teenager #veteran