Teen proverbs

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◆ You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

- Miranda Kenneally99

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

- Alyson Noel99

◆ I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

- Jennifer Donnelly99

◆ Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

- Bernard Branson99

◆ The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

- Charles de Lint99

◆ Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

- Jennifer Donnelly99

◆ She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.

- Cynthia Voigt99

◆ Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.

- Sarah Ockler99

◆ People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

- Jennifer E. Smith99

◆ If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

- Elizabeth Berg99

◆ Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that's a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.

- Tammara Webber99

◆ I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

- Magenta Periwinkle99

◆ Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

- Rachel Vincent99

◆ Fury ignited behind my breastbone , a hot glow like coals blooming into something sharp and dangerous. It was the same old crap- someone thinking they can push you around because you're young, because you're helpless. You had to just sit there and take it because you were under a certain number , because you weren't a real person yet; you could be picked up and dropped like a toy, left behind or thrown away...

- Lili St. Crow99

◆ Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

- Ann Marie Frohoff99