Ya Quotes

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

~ Carrie Vaughn

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

~ Maureen Johnson

I'm still dropping dishes thinking in slow motion about the GPS woman in Mom's car. I imagine her beckoning me from outside the kitchen window illuminated like some robot-angel calling me forth to the Lexus where she will ferry me off to that planet of monotonous peace that special otherworldly place where all the residents are relaxed and confident and completely numb. Your life will. Get better in. Six. Point four. Million. Miles.

~ Sarah Ockler

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I’ve discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that’s filled with masterpieces I’ve never heard of.

~ Nick Hornby

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny

~ Patricia Lynne

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

~ Patricia Lynne

We could use all the blessings we could get. The impact of what we were about to do hit me like an anvil on Wile E. Coyote's head. We were heading out to stop Satan's son and save the world from certain destruction. Piece of cake.

~ Terri Clark

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

~ Christina Lauren

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

~ Christina Lauren

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

~ Christina Lauren

He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.

~ Christina Lauren

I can't read him. I can't grasp him. I have no idea what he's thinking and if he's messing with me or if he really is this good, but never before have I wanted so fiercely to learn forward and put my mouth on someone's neck, begging them to want me.

~ Christina Lauren

Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending, or maybe we've just been hit by a meteor and this is the rapture and I'm given one last perfect moment before I'm sent to purgatory and he;s sent somewhere much, much better.It isn't his first kiss - I know that - but it's his first real one.

~ Christina Lauren

Everything feels yes.

~ Christina Lauren

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

~ Christina Lauren

The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not going to go away when you go on your mission. I'll still be here, and I'll still be thinking about all those things. I'll still be working on being a better person, a better friend, a better son. I'll still be wondering what it would be like to be a better boyfriend for you. And you will be on your mission, thinking about how much you wish your weren't gay.

~ Christina Lauren

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

~ Christina Lauren

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

~ Christina Lauren

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.

~ Bella James

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

~ Bella James

Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

~ Alex Lane

The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops looking for you.And there you are - under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree - and you don't want to give up, because maybe she's just biding her time. But maybe she's wandered off...

~ Rainbow Rowell

You're such a dork.But I'm your dork.

~ Ashley Royer

You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.

~ S. Jae-Jones

Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.

~ Zoe Cruz

Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

~ Cecelia Ahern

From my bedroom window, I can see the sun peeping through the clouds. London certainly isn't a city noted for its climate, but I think, sooner or later, you get used to it, and live with the weather. For most of the year, everyone and everything seems to be tucked up cosily in grey cotton wool, but Dickens said that fog is a characteristic of London, didn't he? This climate could go hand in hand with my dismal humour.

~ Sarah Iles

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance..[From Current Work In Progress]

~ Jenna Streety

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

Dark haired guys are so, so much better.

~ Estelle Maskame

It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.

~ Estelle Maskame

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.

~ Estelle Maskame

We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.

~ Estelle Maskame

I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.

~ Estelle Maskame

The bent but unbroken ones.

~ Rick Yancey

Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.

~ Audrey Greathouse

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

~ Francesca Zappia

The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment I’m awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I can’t ignore who I am. My mother says the water is dangerous, that beyond the innocent whitecaps they’re waiting, but I never hear her over the call of the sea.

~ Tabi Card

So? Mac says.I shrug.Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?It was nice, I guess.You guess? Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. Tough crowd.Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.

~ Ashley Mansour