There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night. Hit. Panic. Flail. Freeze.
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Related You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear hav... MICHAEL GRANT Dear Teenage Self, That guy you're crazy about, Will ask you out On a date JOYCE RACHELLE You know all the ways you can kill a girl? God, there are so many. COURTNEY SUMMERS There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. Wh... KRISTEN MCKEE Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom p... CRAIG FERGUSON Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly ... LES MARTIN You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. SARAH DESSEN Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colore... TIM BURTON A teenage boy with a Mohawk sat across from me, sneering. I’d seen that look before. Why was it a ... LESLIE LANGTRY Think like a middle-aged man with OCD, a dead wife, and a teenage daughter. Think like a woman ... JENNIFER ECHOLS There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; And w... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW You," I said, "have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artis... SARAH DESSEN The act of respecting a girl is more beautiful than saying her beautiful. -Santosh Pyasa SANTOSH KUMAR PYASA There once was a girl who found herself dead. She peered over the ledge of heaven and saw ... JANDY NELSON Behind these eyes there is a girl trapped within her pain – a girl feeling all the emoti... CHIMNESE DAVIDS There is a girl. I named her love. She has a father. His name is desire. Her mo... DEBASISH MRIDHA The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl TIM BURTON It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.” “Who’s Lily?” DAVID LEVITHAN She doesn’t have a ring on each finger, or a big diamond on each ring. She doesn’t we... ANNE BEREST AUDREY DIWAN CAROLINE DE MAIGRET AND SOPHIE MAS There was a girl I knew who always wanted to be the one to stand out from the crowd Always belie... LINDSAY LOHAN Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. The... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. ... WARSAN SHIRE Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief... JOHNNY CASH You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' ALLY CARTER I was thrown into a state of sheer, mindless panic. “It’s my mother!” I whispered fiercely, JEANIENE FROST THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul... W.B. YEATS And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a s... WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS There were once two sisters who were not afriad of the dark because the dark was full of t... JANDY NELSON I am who I say I am, I'm not some fantasy of how you think you think you know or who ... JAMES HOWE We had to react immediately because in December we were beginning to lose customers who we... RICHARD BLISS Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA Boys are idiots. Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.<... JOSH LIEB Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought ... TIM BURTON over the decades her books became such a part of her that the ink AMANDA LOVELACE So you want to know all about me, Who I am What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte... ELLEN HOPKINS Out of the starless night that covers me, (O tribulation of the wind that rolls!) Black ... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY If I could have one friend, just one in all the world, I know that I would not seek out RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example,'The night is shattered an... PABLO NERUDA I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of ... PABLO NERUDA I know that some night in some bedroom soon my fingers will rift through CHARLES BUKOWSKI My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don't care that they are naked. Ther... ANDREA GIBSON The boldest of the three moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here ... TERRY PRATCHETT I can't see why you should want to dance with me now, when you never have before." The statement was... LISA KLEYPAS Where have you come from boy?' He looked at her again. 'From hell, to take you away in the... PAUL HOFFMAN She rides the sandworm of space! She guides through all storms Into the land of gentle win... FRANK HERBERT I love my mother. My mother loves my dad. Those two facts are undeniable. JOHNA PASSARO So I felt this burning summer. In form I might belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a... JOHN FOWLES There is nothing prettier in the whole wide world than a girl in love wit... ATTICUS POETRY I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Ka... RICK RIORDAN Don't blame us," said my mother. "We didn't blow up half of Court, steal a dozen cars, call out a mu... RICHELLE MEAD I feel in every girl there is a spirit, a wild pixie, that if let go, would run and d... ATTICUS I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. ANNE SEXTON Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I just shook my head, knowing this was him evading the question. You," I said, "have this whole... SARAH DESSEN No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed. But I think of you. Sometimes. SREESHA DIVAKARAN I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla... SABAA TAHIR It's a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says ... LENORE LOOK This is what I am, I'll say, to leave this written excuse. This is my life. Now it is clea... PABLO NERUDA The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make... LEWIS CARROLL You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what happens to you or how p... KATIE KACVINSKY A love poem about the most invisible woman: The perfect mind, the perfect cover. I k... WILL ADVISE Nick." "Yeah?" "Come to bed. It's too cold to sleep on the floor." There was a pause.... KRISTAN HIGGINS Moms are the ones Who make sure of a lot of things Like that their kids Wear nice clo... NANCY J. CAVANAUGH So how long have you been together? Two months?' 'Five.' 'Five? Jesus, Steve, you might as... CECELIA AHERN So many likes and retweets for having the "GUTS" to say what every- one thinks ... ANDY CARRINGTON COMPLETELY. Utterly. Frozen. My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin... COLLEEN HOOVER But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." <... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light. “Hermione... J.K. ROWLING Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray An... JACK GILBERT Even in the darkest clouds There are specks of joy Out of the darkness Comes light KAREN HACKEL It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom y... EDGAR ALLAN POE The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of ... FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or... E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, JOHN DONNE Pay to go inside Neruda's home A body lies there with no dome. But right there in the fron... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. S... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Damn it," I muttered. "What?" asked Adrian. "I hate when you're the sane one... RICHELLE MEAD Wow. I've never been in... uh..." "A fag's bedroom before." "Yeah." FAILTE Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep, I'll come and pace the deck with ... THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Don’t panic. Don’t panic. Someone opens the door. Do not panic. “Hi.” I�... REA LIDDE So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte... ELLEN HOPKINS He leaned forward to inspect her closer. "Is that all hair?" ... Sudden, overwhelming pan... MARISSA MEYER To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks<... PABLO NERUDA there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of t... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Oppression Now dreams Are not available To the dreamers, Nor songs To... LANGSTON HUGHES THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel... MICHAEL RYAN Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at eve... ALLY CARTER I’ve been worried since I left the womb Like a schizophrenic on shrooms Like a hypochond... JUSTIN WETCH To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innoce... EMILY DICKINSON The Wolf trots to and fro, The world lies deep in snow, The raven from the birch tree flie... HERMANN HESSE Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're pa... ROB THOMAS Why Not You? Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? STEVE MARABOLI (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Opusculum paedagogicum The pears are not viols, Nudes or bottles. They resemble nothing els... WALLACE STEVENS Oh! Thanks for the public service announcement about what not to do in college, Mr. Eighteen-year-ol... JAMIE MCGUIRE The girl who cried, The friend who tried, The boy who died. JOHN GREEN This is why it hurts the way it hurts. You have too many words in your head. There are to... PLEASEFINDTHIS Elise ignored her complaints and eased her deeper into the water, until it was almost to her chest. ... SUZAN TISDALE Survive ... Some women survive by creating walls, big walls guarding their heart... IJEOMA UMEBINYUO
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ALLY CARTER Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred t... ALLY CARTER Because that's the thing about hope- you can never kill it yourself. ALLY CARTER [WRITER] Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterward... ALLY CONDIE It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures. ALLY CONDIE I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches t... ALLY CONDIE They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will la... ALLY CONDIE Cassia. I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. ... ALLY CONDIE The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient... CARL ALLY Aber die Liebe lässt einen genauer und immer genauer hinsehen. Man bemerkt den Handrücken, eine Dr... ALLY CONDIE But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?" "You," he says, almo... ALLY CONDIE Why are some things easier to write than say? ALLY CONDIE Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs. ALLY CONDIE Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? ALLY CONDIE Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps ... ALLY CONDIE My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She ... ALLY CONDIE We're doing really well. We're keeping our possessions and having patience before taking a shot. ALLY STROUP I was kind of by the 18-yard box. Mandy sent a really good ball to me, but I couldn't go with it. So... ALLY STROUP We were dominating the game. We knew we would get a lot of opportunities. ALLY STROUP Defending the home field is very important. Last year, we started winning (at home) and we're trying... ALLY STROUP On the last goal Mandy sent the ball over the defense to me. I shot and it bounced off the goalie. E... ALLY STROUP In the beginning of the season we did a good job of getting used to playing with each other. The Car... ALLY STROUP My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learning's, if not with what I went throug... ALLY SHEEDY I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes. ALLY SHEEDY I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify wi... ALLY SHEEDY I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a ... ALLY SHEEDY I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in ... ALLY SHEEDY I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star. ALLY SHEEDY Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination. ALLY SHEEDY But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to. ALLY SHEEDY