New Adult Quotes

Drive. He’s already dead.

~ Steven Ramirez

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

~ Steven Ramirez

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

~ Steven Ramirez

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

~ Steven Ramirez

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

~ Steven Ramirez

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

~ Steven Ramirez

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

~ Steven Ramirez

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

~ Steven Ramirez

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

~ Steven Ramirez

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

~ Steven Ramirez

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

~ Steven Ramirez

That Abbie is such a freaking brat who doesn’t know anything! My William is wasting away in that castle and that stuck up, self-righteous cow doesn’t even care because now she’s just all ooooo, Peter I love you! Well I don’t love Peter and he’s a jerk. Let’s go bust down the door!” She sat back and calmly pushed her hair from her face, “Now would you get me a soda?

~ Gwenn Wright

I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel

~ Victoria H. Smith

I know.” The two words ghosted against the skin of her neck, sending goose bumps down her spine. “But I want to touch you. I want to put my hands all over you. I want to kiss every inch of you and taste you as you come apart in my arms. I want to feel you wrapped around me with nothing but my name on your lips and the sheets a tangled mess beneath us. I want…” He exhaled heavily into her ear. “I want. I want. I want!

~ Airicka Phoenix

Do it, Octavian” She ghosted the tips of her fingers along the hem of his shirt. “Touch me.”He growled low in his throat, his forehead dropping another inch toward her shoulder, his hair tickling the side of her face. “Be my angel, Riley, not my siren. Don’t tempt me.”Moistening her lips with a sweep of her tongue, Riley glided her fingers over his belt, tracing the strip of leather to the silver buckle in the center. She felt rather than heard his deep inhalation and the tremor that raked his powerful body. Driven by his surrender, she used two fingers to walk over the square carvings etched into his abdomen, biting her lip to stop the grin that pulled when he groaned. “I want to be both for you, Octavian,” she whispered, letting her lips brush the curve of his shoulder.

~ Airicka Phoenix

The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isn’t fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hands, peering up at him again, and all I can think is, God, I wish he’d stop staring at me like that.

~ Alex Rosa

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

~ Nenia Campbell

I don’t want to be the anchor around his feet. I want to be the sky. I want to be the colorful weird name.

~ Pella Grace

I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.

~ Alex Rosa

If you don't understand my silence, then you won't understand my words.

~ Nakul Yadav

There's nothing wrong with you, there are just more assholes in this world than good people.

~ Travis Simmons

Does he make you see stars?’ he asks in a low voice. ‘Does he call you his north star? Because that’s what you are to me. You’re the reason I made it home.

~ Mila Gray

He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time

~ Alex Rosa

You’ve lied to me. You’ve hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we’re still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field

~ Megan Maldonado

...you don’t fight fair against the devil, now do you?

~ Megan Winkler

I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose. But I can't. And its killing me-Mr. Stone

~ Kate Bloomfield

Their eyes locked.They could see into each other's souls. This was why she had been born.

~ Marion Croslydon

It was amazing the things you could bring yourself to do when you felt insecure, when you were out to protect your heart. You could deny it what it wants most, just for the sake of saving your pride or dodging another bullet.

~ Rachael Wade

She closed the distance between them and gave him a tentative hug. He was liberally cologned, with a scent that incited bewildering memories. She circled him, not knowing why. She had only met him a few weeks back, yet tonight, something about him triggered old memories, of a time, a person. Maybe not. What she did know, he lacked that special ingredient that moved her. Dull as ditch water. He was sufficiently polite, but that was about all she could say. –Michael Benzehabe, from the novel Unassimilated

~ Michael Benzehabe

Clara smoked in the shallow pool as Lana del Rey poured from her phone. She shaded her eyes. She liked the shallow pool because she could lay out, half in the sun, half in the water, and not get her hair wet. She had black eyeliner smeared under her eyes from who-knows-when, and while she never bothered to fix it, she did apply more, so she looked permanently hung over. She liked that.

~ Lisa Martens

I close my eyes and think about the only thing that makes life worth the trials: Emma Kingsley, her sweet smile, and the laugh that make me believe in a future.

~ Cristin Harber

He was supposed to be the one I loved forever. But he never saw the tears stream down my face. Never knew the hurt and humiliation and anguish. He just disappeared into the night

~ Cristin Harber

The idea that I could lose her again… it’s unbearable.

~ Cristin Harber

You are kind, caring and intrinsically good. I am hateful, vengeful and intrinsically evil.

~ E.l. Wicker

You don't think you're a vampire, Sam. That kind of thing you know.

~ Jennifer Loiske

He hugged me, and I let him press me against his godlike body. What? A girl should have some fun sometimes.

~ Jennifer Loiske

Could I be brave enough to look lower? I could. His black tee shirt licked his hard body and I could only guess what was hidden underneath it. His faded jeans hung dangerously low, revealing a slice of his narrow hips, and I could easily imagine the rest.

~ Jennifer Loiske

Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

~ Tia Giacalone