“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Old age, sickness, death. No escape for anyone. Even the beautiful ones were like soft fruit about to spoil.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves, It's better to pass on through those years And come out the other side with our hearts still beating, Having stared down demons and come back breathing.”— The Mountain Goats, youtu.be
“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
“We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“You are only as touched by the magic of this life as you want to be.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com
“I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn’t make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about…”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I’m 22. I get to adorn my body as I see fit.”— Daniel Palladino, Vanessa Marano, April Nardini, imdb.com
“You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“I plan on holding on to my youth for as long as possible.”— Stephanie Savage, Josh Schwartz, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com
“I like being on my own. Relationships are messy and people's feelings get hurt. Who needs it? We're young. We live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Might as well have fun while we can and save the serious stuff for later.”— Zooey Deschanel, Summer, amazon.com
“Take the years when you’re young – say, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five, before you have a mortgage or kids or anything else that needs to be fed – and go balls out on intuition and follow your dreams.”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.com
“That’s the worst thing about being young. You really have no clue about all the changes that are coming. And when they come, no matter how people have warned you, you are genuinely surprised.”— Tarryn Fisher, amazon.com
“No society on earth comes close to matching America’s youthful imagination, its liberation of youthful energies, colors, forms, products, and narratives, all of which appeal directly to what is most neotenic or childlike in our nature. That America is comprehensible from the perspectives of all othe…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com