Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

I thought you were just typical teenagers.”No one has ever called me typical. I can’t say I like it.

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone./Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline./18 and life you got it.

And you… do you know what you are?”“Stupid?”“Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

Tuwape watoto wetu haki yao ya msingi ya kuwa watoto katika siku za ujana wao, kabla hawajawa watoto tena watakapokuwa wakubwa.