"Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)

"High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track."

Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005

"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."

Doug Larson

"When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with."

John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say 'seventeen and insane.'"

Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953

"Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen."

Anonymous

"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable."

W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943

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