Seventeen Quotes

“And now I am here, as alone as I've ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it's suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow. ”
― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 1

“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that you’re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.”
― Francine Pascal, Fearless

“And she imagined how things could be later. It was stupid, but the picture just appeared in her mind. Abel and Magnus shoveling snow together... in twenty years, in thirty. Magnus had grown old, his broad back still strong but bent from time, his hair nearly white at the temples. And Abel... Abel was a different Abel, an adult one, one who was absolutely self-confident and didn't let his eyes dart around the room at lunch, as if he were caught in trap.
"Nonsense," she whispered. "Thirty years? You don't stay with the person you meet at seventeen... what kind of fairy tale are you living in, Anna Leemann?"
And still the picture seemed right.”
― Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

“I'm so glad you're here, Anne,' said Miss Lavendar, nibbling at her candy. 'If you weren't I should be blue…very blue…almost navy blue. Dreams and make-believes are all very well in the daytime and the sunshine, but when dark and storm come they fail to satisfy. One wants real things then. But you don't know this…seventeen never knows it. At seventeen dreams do satisfy because you think the realities are waiting for you further on.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I'm seventeen; we're all perverts." - Jace Lightwood”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then.”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale – A Fresh Look at the Many Dimensions of God and Humanity

“Being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen really suck.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you want to survive, you're going to have to learn to be ruthless...”
― Suzanne Lowe, Seventeen

“Now, Anne, don't look as if you were trying to understand. Seventeen can't understand.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Sometimes parents loved their sons so much that they made a romance out of their lives. They thought our youth could help us overcome everything. Maybe moms and dads forgot about this one small fact: being on the verge of seventeen could be harsh and painful, and confusing. Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“This one had come to me, though, picked me out. I thought she was trouble from the start. I don't read minds and I can't see the future, but call it instinct or experience, something was prickling my spine.
You could call it something else, if you wanted: adolescence, hormones, lust. Being seventeen. That doesn't go away, however long you practice.
"Hullo," I said politely, warily.
She was long and slim and very neatly put together, dark hair tumbling over denim, old worn black jacket and jeans that somehow hadn't faded into grey. They probably didn't dare. Right from the start I saw a focus in her, a determination that must go all the way through, like the writing in a stick of Brighton rock. In another world, another lifetime, I thought she'd have raven-feathers in her hair, a bear's tooth on a thong about her. She'd be the village shaman, talking to spirits, and even the headman would be afraid of her, a little...
Seventeen, I told you. She was devastating to me, she was sitting at my table, and I couldn't afford her. Not for a minute.
If I'd stood up, if I'd left, if I'd run away...
Nah. She would just have come after me. Faster, fitter, and on longer legs. What chance did I ever have?”
― Ben Macallan, Desdaemona

“17, where confidence and innocence shake hands.
Where Independence fluctuates,
Scales of supply and demand.
Where teenage temper tantrums
Disguise more depth then we can see.
Where parental paranoia screams: "Please don't abandon me" .”
― Kim Brandon, Seventeen

“Reality is more cruel than our imagination. But we are stronger than the person we imagine ourselves to be.”
― The8

“Being seventeen is an exercise in cruelty. Those unfortunate enough to be so know a little of the world, a little less of love, and less still of themselves. But not enough of any of these to avoid heartache.”
― Elyse Durham, Maya & Natasha

“Sovereign 17 wants no sovereignty.”
― Kim Brandon, Seventeen

“To 17 year old me, you’ll be ambushed by his fans for being your honest self. Let them ambush you. You are showing them that you deserve the best.”
― Laika Constantino