As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. Her eyes turned the color of the sea.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power.

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

You might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”, and I will say "watch me".

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

.Ensuring that young people get the rightinformation that will enable them make the rightchoices is a responsibility all citizens must takeseriously

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world Youth may be headstrong but it will advance it allotted length

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn't know how to let either of them in.

Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.