{"quotes":[{"text":"I met Baba Yaga at the end of childhood – past pigtails and fairytales, but not quite ready to give up on make-believe.","author":"Kirsty Logan","tags":["adolescence","childhood","fairytale","fairytales","teenage"],"id":1751,"author_id":"Kirsty+Logan"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a 'young adult', and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","inspirational","lauren-oliver","life","people","teenage","young","youth"],"id":8363,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.","author":"Huntley Fitzpatrick","tags":["drama","parents","teenage"],"id":31398,"author_id":"Huntley+Fitzpatrick"},{"text":"I have this dream that secretly all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we all realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending to be something we're not.","author":"Zoe Sugg","tags":["girl-online","girls","teenage","teenagers"],"id":45715,"author_id":"Zoe+Sugg"},{"text":"I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, 'no, certainly not!' but I said, 'ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to,' and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, 'of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water.'When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like 'this is a very handsome man' and 'you must have been proud of your brother' when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and 'you're lucky you have another brother'; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, 'Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!","author":"Sheldon Currie","tags":["accident","black","brother","canada","cape-breton","coal","coal-mine","death","depression","disaster","dusty","face","father","fear","friendship","grief","grit","hospital","joke","lonely","loss","lost","mine","mourning","nova-scotia","nun","religion","rock","sadness","smile","soul","teenage","wash"],"id":61726,"author_id":"Sheldon+Currie"},{"text":"Kipster is a perfectly valid word,” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….”Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["1980-s","80-s","argue","baby","boring","bullying","canada","cape-breton","coming-of-age","drama","drama-queen","eating","eighties","fighting","funny","game","gossip","growing-up","kipster","maturity","nostalgia","nova-scotia","pollution","rumors","scary","scrabble","self-harm","suicide","teenage","words"],"id":62178,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Everybody is a teenage idol.","author":"Barry Gibb","tags":["idol","everybody","teenage "],"id":67246,"author_id":"Barry+Gibb"},{"text":"At least I rescued your poor hot dog.","author":"R.L. Stine","tags":["burn","coming-of-age","disturbing","fire","frightening","funny","ghost","ghoul","gives-me-the-willies","goosebumps","grief","hot-dog","humor","laugh","lonely","lord","madness","nostalgia","pyrokinesis","rescue","savior","scary","sleepaway-camp","spooky","summer-camp","teen","teenage","wiener","wiener-roast"],"id":79771,"author_id":"R.L.+Stine"},{"text":"I’m scared that you’ll make me love you…and then you’ll leave me.","author":"S.R. Crawford","tags":["fantasy","love","romance","teen-love","teenage","worry","young-adult"],"id":99581,"author_id":"S.R.+Crawford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}