Jerry Spinelli Quotes

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and 'going' with this girl, 'Is this true love?'

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

I think falling in love is always a surprise, right?

My first crush was on John Travolta in 'Grease.'

I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.

I think there are people who think 'high school was the peak of my life,' and there are people who think it was dreadful, and then, I think most people are somewhere in between. I do think that it's normal to experience strong emotions during that time, and I think those emotions stay with you.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

The first girl I kissed was a suburbanite.

When I was twelve, I fell in love with Candice Bergen.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.

Prince was my first crush, and my first love, but we didn't start to get serious until I turned 18. He was very respectful.

I was class VI or VII when I had a crush on a girl, and I thought this is the girl I'd marry. When you're so young, you are crestfallen when things don't turn out your way and think it's the end of the world.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Maybe I’m just a kid in love.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.