Teen Issues Quotes

#1. A recurring theme in the book is instinct versus articulation. Although teen services people may know and understand issues on an instinctive level, they must be prepared to articulate these ideas in the face of threats to teen services.

Jennifer Velasquez

#2. There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.

Liz Thebart

#3. God damn, I wish I could fast-forward time and be old and wrinkly. How awesome would that be? No more worrying about getting ogled by douche bags like Trent Gibson, or getting all hormonal and bothered against my will over hotties like Grant Blue, who wouldn't touch me with a ten-foot pole.

Isobel Irons

#4. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?

Laura Anderson Kurk

#5. Just as space has parts lying alongside one another, time has parts following one another. The Infinite has no parts, of either (or any other conceivable) sort. Eternity is not time, however much we may try to glorify the concept of time.

Frank Sheed

#6. And I kind of like the Teen Rebels; they seem to be better than the Bullying Trio. Still, watch your backs, rebels!

Jacquel Chrissy May

#7. The end for us came with a knock on my window.

Liz Thebart

#8. [...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.

Liz Thebart

#9. The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young.

George Takei

#10. Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.

John Scalzi

#11. My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.

Emilyann Girdner

#12. I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.

Rick Riordan

#13. The only differences between people who think they are creative and people who think they are not are their beliefs about their creativity. Start telling yourself that you are a creative person.

Sanaya Roman

#14. Tired? I don't think so. I'm in such good shape that I could box even 25 rounds.

Vitali Klitschko

#15. Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Mal Peet

#16. Some day soon I'm gonna get away from here.

Randolph Randy Camp