Teen Issues Quotes

“Around eighth grade Margot started getting really sensitive about her weight, even though she wasn’t remotely fat—just a little round-faced. So Margot did what any normal fourteen-year-old girl would do. She started puking on purpose, every day after fifth period. Of course now, she does more than puke. But we don’t talk about that. Because real friends don’t judge each other for what they do to survive in hell.”
― Isobel Irons, Promiscuous

“God damn, I wish I could fast-forward time and be old and wrinkly. How awesome would that be? No more worrying about getting ogled by douche bags like Trent Gibson, or getting all hormonal and bothered against my will over hotties like Grant Blue, who wouldn’t touch me with a ten-foot pole.”
― Isobel Irons, Promiscuous

“[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“See, the thing is, I had a little misunderstanding with Trent Gibson in Pre-Calculus earlier. I dropped my textbook on his face—accidentally, while we were discussing some…equations—and he thought I was trying to brain him. So of course, he narked to Shoemaker, and apparently accidents are grounds for disciplinary action these days.”
― Isobel Irons, Promiscuous

“There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“@alex: Like you're expected to act like one person at school, and another person in front of your family, and someone else
around your friends. I get so tired of living up to other people's expectations, and sometimes I try to remember who the real me is, and I don't even know.”
― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately

“The end for us came with a knock on my window.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“When Grant Blue reaches me, he bends his head down close enough that I can smell the soap and promise on his skin. Clean living and popularity—It’s quite the aftershave, let me tell you. If I’m being honest, the fact that he even has to bend to talk to me is making me want to swoon a little. ...But just a little.”
― Isobel Irons, Promiscuous

“That girl in the mirror wasn't me. that girl in the mirror had devoured me. Swallowed me whole.”
― Leslie Tall Manning, I am Elephant, I am Butterfly