Jim Butcher Quotes

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!

My size wasn't something that I'd ever spent a huge amount of time thinking about - I guess at the age of 17 or 18 you don't.

I was just a lanky kid, just tall.

When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

It is always "Youth, youth," when there is nothing else to be said.

I heard someone say once that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

Youth is a mortal wound.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books, it's actually really wonderful. I tend to have that reaction: I don't want to read it if everyone thinks it's cool. It was a really interesting insight into being young and male. Now that made me feel really thankful for my boyfriend and really thankful because he wasn't like that protagonist, but I know so many people who are like that protagonist.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Can you imagine wot it was like. All the girls gettin' luvly figgers and me stayin' flat as a pancake? It was no fun, I tell you.

I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.