teen

This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

She's kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing __leep sweet sleep_. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

I__ saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I__ asking if you__l stick this out beside me. I__ willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that__ the case. I just don__ want to lose you.

Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.

All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.- MATTHEW 7:15

Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I__e worked to earn mine

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

I'm not that good of an actor to fake something like that.

Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.