When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

Life is too short, you know? You have to make the best of it. Do things most teenagers wouldn’t do.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No," I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

I meander and wander, like a lazy river. Gosh, why are some rivers so damn lazy? What, are they teenagers?

Juno MacGuff: Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

The biggest test for parents is not how they parent, but how the respond to disorder and unpredictability.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

I say haven’t we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

Jack, I think I'm having a mid-life crisis. Oh Mom, you're way too old to be having a mid-life crisis.

You are a pearl of great price to me, but there are times when you are an almighty trial to those who love you.