New Adult Quotes

In no mood for one of her silly games, I snatched it off her and scanned the page. It turned out to be a list of names, all of them boys, and some of whom I recognised. And then I noticed the title: ‘Operation: Popping the Cherry’. I leaped to my feet and fired a glare at each of them in turn, trying not to shout. ‘Are you shitting me?

~ Aurelia B. Rowl

Quick, somebody call the caretaker!’ Gemma’s stage voice rang out loud and clear. ‘There’s some trash here that needs to be taken out.’ She earned a chorus of laughs as she walked towards us, then came to a standstill right beside me. ‘Christ, it reeks, too,’ she said, pinching her nose. ‘What did you do, Malice? Douse yourself in the whole bottle? Oh, never mind. I don’t expect you to have heard of the adage “less is more”.

~ Aurelia B. Rowl

Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes they know about it. More often they don't.

~ Nikki Rae

Evolve? Like a Pokemon?' I have no idea why I say this. I think I'm kind of going into shock, and the first thing that pops into my head when he says evolve is Charmander evolving into Charizard.

~ Nikki Rae

Monsters never truly go away. They claw their way to the surface again eventually.

~ Nikki Rae

Love is a monster.

~ Nikki Rae

I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.

~ Carla J. Hanna

As I stand at the edge of the pit, searching for his body amongst all the others, I am slightly frightened by the violent clashes. It seems almost savagery, the way they throw themselves into each other. As I continue to watch, unable to look away, drawn in by their angry and troubled release I see him. His body is sweating, his muscles are flexed and his face holds an expression of pain mixed with pleasure. In that moment I realize their is so much I don't know about the man I am falling in love with and my fear of him excites me.

~ Nicole T. Smith

I’m beginning to feel as though we’re in some kind of cocoon, I’m just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.

~ Nicole T. Smith

What’s your name?” I ask again. “Chris,” he says. “Chris Young.” I exhale dramatically, blowing my bangs out of my eyes. “I can take you,” I reply. “But if you try anything, I’ll shoot you right between the eyes. Seriously.” He almost smiles. “Yes, ma’am.

~ Summer Lane

I’ve never been on a bike,” I say. “I mean, I’ve been on a bike but not a motorcycle.”“And why is that?” he asks. “Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That’s just gross.” Chris makes a face.“If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.

~ Summer Lane

I don’t know how it happened. Nobody does. There are only theories, empty rhetoric and doomsday prophecies. None of them are right, but none of them are completely wrong, either. They all have a grain of truth. All I know is where I was and what I was doing when it happened.

~ Summer Lane

Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.

~ Abbi Glines

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

~ Abbi Glines

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.

~ Kate Avelynn

He stabs his fingers through his drying hair and resumes his pacing. “You think I don’t know this went really fast? I didn’t plan for this to happen. Hell, I didn’t even know if you’d let me talk to you, much less be with you. But then you did and we did and…” He stops in the center of the room and stares at me, his shoulders sagging. “I figured out pretty quick that this is a forever thing for me. I think it has been from the very beginning.

~ Kate Avelynn

James is why I never left. I should have left.

~ Kate Avelynn

Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.

~ Kate Avelynn

James “Knockout Jimmy” O’Brien, Granite Fall’s very own boxing legend—a title he held until a young groupie poked holes in the condom she made him wear “for protection.”My brother was born nine months later, fists already swinging.

~ Kate Avelynn

I feel his intense gaze skimming my face and force myself to look him in the eye. This time, when he leans closer, I know what he wants. He traces my jaw with his fingertips, then moves lower to my chin. My eyelids flutter closed when he tips my face up.Oh my God. Sam Donavon is going to kiss me. The forest holds its breath.I hold my breath.Our lips brush, light as eyelashes. His fingers trail back into my hair, tilting my head. Hot cinnamon dances across my mouth. I’m drowning.And then my name, roared at the top of familiar lungs, cracks the silent night.

~ Kate Avelynn

Selfish as this sounds, I meant what I said earlier,” he finally says.I try to remember what he said, but everything is kind of a blur. “Which part?” “The ‘I’m glad you came tonight’ part.”So I’m not imagining the nudging or the sparks or what I could have sworn was his thumb tracing circles on the back of my hand while we walked to his car. “Mmm. Well in that case, I meant what I said, too.”He kicks a rock I’m two steps from tripping over out of my path. “You said the potholes in Leslie’s driveway suck.

~ Kate Avelynn

What better time to be kind to a beautiful stranger than when she’s weak, and rocking a schnoz like the Godfather?

~ Leslea Tash

Who am I? She whispered. Alex opened his mouth as if to correct her, but then he said, You are my love.

~ Deirdre Riordan Hall

You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

~ Faith Sullivan

I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk.

~ Abria Mattina

You know, you’re kind of a badass.” “Please, if I had balls they’d be bigger than yours.

~ Abria Mattina

Why am I surrounded by sluts and morons?

~ Abria Mattina

You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.

~ Abria Mattina

I solved world hunger.”
“Yeah, right.”
“Oh, ye of little faith.”
“You realize that solving world hunger would mean you’d be doing something good for a change?”
“Ah, but there’s the kicker: I destroyed my solutions.” He finally looks away from the window and gives me this cocky smirk. “Malevolence 101, Kirk.

~ Abria Mattina

I’m going to kill you, you know.

~ Abria Mattina

It wasn't until the morning after my uneventful shift, when I wake up, dazed and tense and frustrated as hell, that I realize I'm getting obsessed with that girl, my partner, and this thing is running me ragged.

~ Charlotte Penn Clark

Nothing in life is permanent. All of it will eventually disappear…Maybe we’re supposed to know that…accept it, and live our lives differently because of it. Rearrange our priorities based on the finite number of heartbeats we have left.

~ Lindsey Frydman

And on bad days, when his aura of sadness blazed like an alarm he couldn’t turn off, I felt like I was doing everything wrong.

~ Lindsey Frydman

Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.

~ L.j. Shen

Why the anchor?Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

~ L.j. Shen

Yes, Mel. That's exactly why I left without explaining. Because I think about you before I think about myself. Always remember that, Little Ballerina. Always.

~ L.j. Shen

And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.

~ Colleen Hoover

You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

~ Colleen Hoover

And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

~ Colleen Hoover

I'm a poet who has lost his words. He looks across the street, but not before I catch the dull glint of shame in his eyes.Where did you lose them? I ask, gentling my tone.He turns back to me. When he speaks, his voice is so small that I have to lean closer to hear it. The same place I lost myself.

~ A.j. Compton