Teen Quotes

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?

~ Christy A. Campbell

He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn’t sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might’ve been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah’s heart, leaving footprints behind that he’d never seen.

~ Christy A. Campbell

You flirt with everything. She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

~ Rainbow Rowell

There are many of us who live alongside others, less fortunate, watching them go through everyday suffering for one reason or another, and we’re not moving even our little finger to help them. It’s in human nature, unfortunately: for the most part, the only people we genuinely care about are ourselves. However, once in a while we encounter different species, different kind of human beings among us: full of compassion, willing and wanting to help, and doing so with joy and happiness. Those are a rarity. But you know what, my dear? Being one of them is not a special calling- it’s a choice. So what will you choose, huh?

~ Yoleen Valai

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

~ Kenneth Logan

Age isn't stealing from my grandmother, it's slowly unwinding her.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he'd add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this, like he'd discovered the Caramilk secret or something.

~ Jo Ann Yhard

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

~ R.l. Stine

It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.

~ Ava Dellaira

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

~ Lisi Harrison

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

~ Chrissy Moon

We had grown into one another somewhere along the way. We were officially a team.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

~ Beth Nimmo

Respect your dream.

~ Jill Williamson

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.

~ Jodie B. Cooper

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

~ Terri Clark

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.

~ Holly Black

I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color.

~ S.g. Holster

But in that moment, I didn’t want to be trusted. I wanted something far more primal. I stretched up on my tiptoes and leaned in. I closed my eyes as his scent overcame me. When his lips touched mine it felt as if he’d caressed them with a feather. It was all I could do not to wrap myself around him and do things I’d never really thought about doing before.

~ Sara Hubbard

Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

~ P.s. Martinez

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

~ P.s. Martinez

I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin' insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face proved I wasn't still dreaming. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency

~ P.s. Martinez

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you human – you do whatever it takes. You save him.

~ Jessica Brody

I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone, anyone to hear my pleas, but my voice had been extinguished and left me with a slight wheeze from what little oxygen I had. I could glimpse the field of energy as it shrank through the safety of my circle to envelop me in a blazing grip. I was alone; unbearably separated from my haven.

~ J.d. Stroube

Because if I lost her, I would be lost, too.

~ Kami Garcia

How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.

~ Emma Cline

I've never had any summer lovin'. And I've never had any school year lovin', either. I've never had a boyfriend. I've never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an article popped up about women marrying themselves. Even my wireless connection knows I'm alone.

~ Flynn Meaney

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

~ Alexa Anderson

Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

~ Setona Mizushiro

Everything...affects everything

~ Jay Asher

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

~ Ashley Earley

THE DAY I ALMOST KILLED MYSELFIt was afternoon and the razorreflected the sky like like a mirror. The bath towelswere white like the bathtub and my wristswere white like the towels.The bathwater got lukewarm.The afternoon turned into lateafternoon and I was still pulling ropes of airinto my lungs like a sailor. The razor reflectedthe sunset. The bathwater got cold.The bath towels were white like the bathtub and my wrists were white like the towels.

~ Karen Finneyfrock

sometimes life isn’t worth the pain. i’m going for a swim. goodbye, my love.

~ Jake Vander-Ark

Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.

~ Tedd Arnold

All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in.

~ Gwenn Wright

Don't settle for being an option, become a priority.

~ Matt Mitchell

All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.

~ Tom Upton

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

~ Carrie Vaughn