Ya Quotes

As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.

~ John Green

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

~ Cassandra Clare

I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as I raised my other hand to hit him. He reached over me and caught that wrist too, gently pinning my arms above my head as he straddled my hips. The space between us boiled my blood.

~ Michelle Hodkin

A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Red in the head, Silver in the heart

~ Victoria Aveyard

Noah's eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the intimacy of us, eyes locked amid the scraping of twenty graphite pencils on paper.I shaded his face out of nothingness. I smudged the slope of his neck and darkened his delinquent mouth, while the lights accented the right angle of his jaw against the cloudy sky outside. I did not hear the bell. I did not hear the other students rise and leave the room. I did not even notice that Noah no longer sat at the stool.

~ Michelle Hodkin

I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.”“Who’s Lily?”“Some girl.”“Ooh... a girl!”“Boomer, we’re not in third grade anymore. You don’t say, ‘Ooh... a girl!’”“What? You fucking her?”“Okay, Boomer, you’re right. I liked ‘Ooh... a girl!’ much more than that. Let’s stick with ‘Ooh... a girl!

~ David Levithan

He reached forward to cup my cheek, the touch surprising me. Please understand that no matter what I am or what has happened in the past, I am yours. I am devoted to you above all else, including my own life.I exhaled after holding my breath for what felt like forever. That's pretty heavy, Will. His expression was impassioned, and the backs of his fingers brushed the side of my neck.It is a burden I am glad to carry.

~ Courtney Allison Moulton

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?

~ Rachel Hawkins

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

~ Priya Ardis

He smiled. we go inside.I'm going to get tetanus in there. I grumbled.Don't go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you'll be fine.You're an ass.

~ Courtney Allison Moulton

[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure, undiluted feeling, as if you were living it anew. It wasn’t love… and it wasn’t hate, or anger, or happiness, or even grief. Memories of those were but echoes of the true feeling.It was shame. Shame never faded.

~ Laini Taylor

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

~ Priya Ardis

1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does.

~ Tahereh Mafi

I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

~ Aprilynne Pike

It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.

~ Andrea Portes

I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.

~ Courtney Summers

She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.

~ Colleen Hoover

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating

~ Priya Ardis

Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game

~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder

My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

~ Priya Ardis

Ceaseless.Almost too much for this small frame.You make me part of the sky.

~ Andrea Portes

That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.

~ Carrie Jones

A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.

~ Elizabeth Marie Pope

...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.

~ Laini Taylor

The panther prowled around me in a loose, wide circle. Its mouth turned down, almost in a pout, and it seemed disappointed that I wasn't going to run away. Or scream, at the very least. Its tail, which was at least three feet long, twitched back and forth in what seemed to be annoyance. Or maybe anticipation. I didn't know. I'd always been more of a dog person.I cleared my throat, and the panther stopped and flicked up one of its rounded ears. Listening.Um, nice kitty?

~ Jennifer Estep

There was really way too much hotness going on back there.

~ Aileen Erin

They tried not to stare, but they couldn't keep their eyes away. I was a freak now. I made people uncomfortable and not necessarily because of my scars-but because what my scars represented. Danger, fear, and the unknown. Something had had happened to me, something not even I could remember. They all probably thought that I was crazy, that I somehow did this to myself. I couldn't blame them. ow could I? They might be right.

~ Cambria Hebert

Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.

~ Priya Ardis

How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?

~ Elizabeth Marie Pope

That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..

~ Carrie Jones

My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.

~ Christine Fonseca

Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.

~ Ryan Graudin

Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline Je suis desole, mon amour.

~ Aileen Erin

So what if I don't learn algebra?''Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.''That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.''I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.

~ Daniel Ehrenhaft

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

~ Aileen Erin

OK. Yoga position 99.

~ Nicholas Reardon

When we were little kids, 'friend' wasn't a verb. You didn't 'friend' someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn't multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.

~ Daniel Ehrenhaft