“There is a problem in this country, that a lot of people don’t believe women. A lot of people don’t believe young women.”— Al Sharpton, en.wikiquote.org
“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“Being young is having more energy and more enthusiasm to learn the truth of our world. You are more powerful than many of us.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“I was as curious as the devil. Couldn't have been older than sixteen months when I started wandering out of the house by myself. I was a handful. Had to be kept on a short leash.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I remember Mama poured me milk and tried to show me how to drink from a cup, but I wouldn't wait. I didn't want to be shown anything. I took the cup and spilled the milk all over me.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Cozie and James also noticed my musical nature when I was still an infant. They said I was fixated on jukeboxes. I'd toddle over and point to one particular song -- "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis, a hot boogie-woogie instrumental. I'd holler until someone put a nickel in the box and pla…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I have to remind myself that there are so many years ahead of me and surely I’ll find someone like you, someone who can be better than you.”— Angelo Caerlang, thoughtcatalog.com
“He was a child; but he knew his own soul, it was precious to him, he guarded it as the eyelid guards the eye, and without the key of love he let no one into his soul.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“I know I’m still young and there’s a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that’s wrong, that I’m not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I’ll always just be alone.”— Lynne Rae Perkins, amazon.com
“All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, goodreads.com
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“If you’re lonely, bored or unhappy, remember you are…young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”— Ezra Koenig, teenvogue.com
“Whether or not you find your own way, you’re bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it’s quite rusty.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“I was so young before New York that I believed loving myself each day would be easier there. But lying in bed, I can hear the wind, and the trees shaking because they have no choice, and I want to go someplace where the trees grow apples shiny and persistent as stars.”— Carlie Hoffman, narrativemagazine.com
“What did I like doing when I was younger that I’ve lost touch with?”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com