Ya Quotes

Her mum is leaning against the wall, arms crossed, when Summer exits. “Gage left from here a few minutes ago,” she says, tone neutral. “His hair was ruffled.” She gestures with her hand above her head.The haze Gage left Summer in vanishes. She frowns.Her mum sighs and steps forward. Smooths her daughter’s hair. “If he hurts you,” she says in a mild tone, “I’ll kill him.

~ Laura Kreitzer

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

~ Laura Kreitzer

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.You don't get scars.Emotional scars then.

~ Amy Tintera

You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that. That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

~ Amy Tintera

I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

~ Amy Tintera

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

~ Elle Cosimano

Calling a book Young Adult is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

~ Oliver Markus

His lips press into mine in a kiss meant to make the world fade away.And it delivers.

~ Rachel Harris

Cat's heated gaze meets mine, and she smiles. Another piece of my heart is hers.

~ Rachel Harris

Wishing that I could stay right here in this moment of not doing, but simply being, forever.

~ Rachel Harris

That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too.

~ Ann Simko

She's not close enough. She'll never be close enough...

~ Rachel Harris

He’s focused on something—or someone—over her shoulder.The harmonious warbling of the rainforest morphs into organized disarray, as if a primitive maestro has thrown conducting to the wind and let Mother Nature take over. Birds trill a warning as the breeze rustles the plant life. Wings flutter overhead. A crescendo of stridulation changes tempo, the insects seemingly performing a sonata as the rhythm shifts yet again.“What—who is it?” Summer asks in a strained whisper.His gaze lands on her, his brows furrowing. “The Forsaken.

~ Laura Kreitzer

He smiles at her before ever opening his eyes. The innocence in his face ensnares. Wraps her heart in a cocoon.They did this to him. The Society. Constructed that smile with malicious expectations. Now she must rip it off his face. Because she doesn’t deserve his love. Or Gage’s. This madness coils around her throat, darkening every inch of her soul.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Every Forsaken in a mile radius can probably hear you. You’re just asking for trouble if you two don’t stop whipping out the measuring stick.”“It’s his fault,” Avery snaps, pointing at Julian.“Shut up, ya wanker.”They start in on each other again. They yell as if they both have megaphones to their mouths, standing inches apart. Each vulgar insult is more illogical than the last.

~ Laura Kreitzer

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren’t equal.

~ Natalie Crown

The mouse began to shift and Kammy marvelled at the sight. Soon a second boy stood before her. She hardly noticed Eric appear beside him.He was dressed much like Eric, though his shirt hung looser on his slimmer frame. His hair was a fluffy, chocolate mess. He was taller than Eric and he glared between them both before his eyes came to rest fully on Kammy. The first thing she noticed was the purple bruise on his cheek. The second was how bright his blue eyes were.

~ Natalie Crown

Kammy jerked upright. It was as though the trees had parted beneath the pressure of the storm and a bolt of lightning had struck her. She had never entered the mouth for it had always been much too small. Yet, she had never seen anything else enter it either. The thought alone made her feel sick with excitement and fear. A small voice told Kammy that such a reaction was ridiculous, it was just a squirrel. But warmth spread to the tips of Kammy’s fingers as they stretched forward. She could see now that it was not a burrow at all, but a tunnel large enough for her to fit through. She was quite sure that she would not even have to bend her head. The same small voice tried to speak again but Kammy could not hear it through the rush of blood in her ears.Kammy stepped inside the mouth of the forest and felt herself flipped upside down.

~ Natalie Crown

No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

~ Natalie Crown

Paige, you will have two tasks tonight,” he said, turning to face me. “Both will test the limits of your sanity. Will you believe me if I tell you that they will help you?”“Not likely,” I said, “but let's get on with it.

~ Samantha Shannon

Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence department. Apply the massive computing technology of the CIA to hiring, along with the naive appeal of the exciting, though perhaps not so lucrative life of a spy, and any headhunter would be jealous of the results.

~ Lynn Blackmar

On Algebra - We're a month into it, and I'm planning to start a real protest movement, one to have X and Y removed from the alphabet. Z is also suspect as far as I'm concerned...Damn it! They put a man on the moon; can't they find some way to end the scourge of Algebra?

~ Huston Piner

He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.

~ Shayna Varadeaux

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

~ Gayle Forman

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

~ J.a. Konrath

Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

~ Rebecca Serle

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

~ Sharon Sant

My dear lady, you have no idea just how scandalous I can be. ~Peter Viktor von Strassenberg, 1905

~ Gwenn Wright

I’d been called a freak, and worse, all through school. Now that I’d finally graduated, I was sick of it. I’d hoped that no one would ever call me names again. Oh well, if wishes were flying monkeys, we’d all be wearing tiny hats.

~ E.j. Stevens

They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.

~ Sarah Ockler

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits the tastebuds. ‘It’s pesto, Jim, but not as we know it,’ I say.‘Fascinating,’ says Lou, unsmiling humouring my Star Trek reference, while wincing at the foul food. (And what made me say that? Is there such a thing as a dad-joke vacuum that needs to be filled, even in the wild?)

~ Fiona Wood

I have two rules I follow religiously:#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.#2. It's all small stuff.

~ R. Rose

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.

~ Wynne Channing

A conscience can be a dangerous thing

~ Kyra Dune

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

~ Julia Crane

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

~ Kyra Dune

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

~ Kyra Dune

I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.

~ A.s. King

And Mother, I love her dearly, but she flies into a panic whenever I mention women’s rights. As she sees it, it will be so much more difficult to marry me off if I am not only of a weak constitution but of a progressive mind as well.

~ Gwenn Wright

In my family nudity just doesn’t exist, I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.

~ Huston Piner