“When you're young, you feel there's this big world out there, full of possibility, and I chased that feeling. All the way to Boring.”— Ben York Jones, Sherry O'Neil, Claudine Mboligikpelani Nako, imdb.com
“Teenage girls are nightmares. As soon as they realize that you'll love them no matter what they do, you lose all your power. You just have to wait until they finish college.”— Stephanie Savage, Joshua Safran, Lily van der Woodsen, Kelly Rutherford, imdb.com
“The young are always more extreme than the old.”— Stefano Rulli, Paolo Sorrentino, Cardinal Michael Spencer, James Cromwell, imdb.com
“Did you play sports in high school. I didn't. I was too busy taking drugs, which was kind of a sport.”— Jared Leto, rollingstone.com
“All teenagers are sex addicts.”— John Wells, LaToya Morgan, Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com
“What’s more thrilling than the beauty and energy of youth? What could be more compelling than bearing witness to the sex and death drives merged together in the specific type of reckless abandon that can only be realized by bodies unencumbered by the anchors of time? It is a freedom that, once found…”— David Rimanelli, ryanmcginley.com
“O nature, o nature. Why do you not deliver on what you promised back then? Why do you deceive your children so?”— Giacomo Leopardi, amazon.com
“High school, it seems, has changed. It has become competitive. Young men and women — 13 to 18 years old — must work more or less tirelessly to ensure their spot at a college deemed worthy to them and their families. So rather than living their adolescent lives — lives brimming with desires and vital…”— Daniel Coffeen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don’t. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Teenage boys goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.”— Camille Paglia, amazon.com
“We lost them in the vastness of their dresses and found them again, squeezed the pulp of their bodies and inhaled the perfume of their exertion. A few of us grew brave enough to insert our legs between theirs and to press our agony against them.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“In the trash can was one Tampax, spotted, still fresh from the insides of one of the Lisbon girls. Sissen said that he wanted to bring it to us, that it wasn't gross but a beautiful thing, you had to see it, like a modern painting or something, and then he told us he had counted twelve boxes of Tamp…”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: 'Obviously, Doctor,' she said, 'you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.'”— Jeffrey Eugenides, Cecilia Lisbon, amazon.com