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“Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening.”
― Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“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

“I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“It’s normal to like guys who seem to like you; it’s normal to want to be loved.â€�
Kami raised her eyebrows. “I’m sixteen,� she said. “I’m not looking for love.�
“Oh,� said Liz. “Uh, what are you looking for?�
“Cheap thrills, mostly,â€� said Kami.”
― Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken

“Remember sixteen â€� when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“We're sixteen. People expect us to fuck up.”
― Brandy Colbert, Little & Lion

“Sweet sixteen is when the claws come out.”
― Hannah Capin, Foul Is Fair

“in the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood.”
― James Carlos Blake, In the Rogue Blood

“Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At that age, everything seemed more open to analogy, to metaphor, than it does now. There were more meanings, more interpretations, a greater variety of available truths. There was more symbolism, Things contained more.”
― Julian Barnes, Metroland

“The law might not recognize it, but fifteen‘s a girl and sixteen a woman, and you get no map from one land to the next. They air-drop you in, booting a bag of Kissing Potion lip gloss and off-the-shoulder blouses after you. As you‘re plummering, trying to release your parachute and grab for that bag at the same time, they holler out "your are pretty", like they‘re giving you some sort of gift, some vital key, but really, it‘s meant to distract you from yanking your cord. Girls who land broken are easy prey. If you‘re lucky enough to come down on your feet, your instincts scream to bolt straight for the trees. You drop your parachute, pluck that bag from the ground (surely it contains something you need), and run like hell, breath tight and blood pounding because boys-who-are-men are being air-droped here, too. Lord only knows what got loaded into their bags, but it does not matter because they do terrible things in packs, boys-who-are-men, things they‘d never have the hate to do alone...we were racing to survive the open-field sprint from girl to woman.”
― Jess Lourey, The Quarry Girls

“Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched out before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints?”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“He makes a face and tosses the flower at me. It lands on my cheek, and I pick it up and twirl it between my fingers. I could lie out here all day, not moving an inch, feeling the sun above and the grass below. With a contented sigh, I stretch my arms wide, raking the grass with my fingers—and find myself brushing Aladdin’s hand with my own. I pull it away quickly, my cheeks warming. He laughs a little.
“Sometimes,� he says, “I forget you’re supposed to be four thousand years old. You act as shy as a girl of sixteen.�
“I do not!� I sit up and glare at him.
He grins and shrugs, sliding his hands under his head. There are bits of grass stuck in his hair, and after a moment’s hesitation, I reach over and flick them away.
Aladdin watches me silently, his throat bobbing as he swallows. I drop my gaze.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“I'd asked Dad for the millionth time if, now that I had a baby brother, I could stay in New York.........and Dad for the millionth time replied I had signed a contract and had to stick to it; when Michael said "Actually, sir, legally, minors can't enter into contracts, and so according to New York State law, you cannot hold Mia to any document she might have signed, as she was under sixteen at the time, making it invalid.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Pink

“Remember sixteen - when all the world was new and your life stretched before you like fresh snow waiting for your footprints.”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“As a young sixteen-year-old girl, Camila “Camiâ€� Alderson should’ve been worrying about finding the right dress for the junior prom and goofing off with friends. The possibility of being pregnant should’ve been the last thing on her mind but the scary thought was always there.”
― Valenciya Lyons, Cami's Decision

“Sixteen years old is a crucial time in anybody's life, whether they realize it or not, and happy is the young person who has parents smart enough to plan character building activities and require respect and obedience.”
― Arnold Pent III, Ten P's in a Pod: The Million-Mile Journal of a Home School Family