Ya Quotes

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

She was his princess. No. She was his goddess. With her golden skin and golden hair. She was his light. His life. His everything.He loved her more than anything else in this world.

~ Morgan Rhodes

You know, when I was little, my dad told me that if I misbehaved, he'd send me to live with a witch who ate children.''Really?'She nods. 'I was so afraid of the witch. Feelings are magnified when you're young, I think, and the fear can stay with you for a long time. I eventually grew out of the fear but even now when I read something with a witch, my mind always traces back to that story. Isn't that weird?''How'd you grow out of it?' I ask. 'The fear?'She takes a long moment to answer. 'I read lots and lots of books about witches.

~ Stephanie Oakes

In that moment, I feel the Prophet's canvas ceiling lift away from my head, walls flying off me, and a pressure I've never put into words hisses somewhere at the back of my mind as the size of the universe assembles itself in my mind. If I close my eyes, I can see it, the endlessness beyond my ears, and knowing I'm only in a corner of that vastness doesn't make me feel tiny. It is amazing that, though I am small and ungifted and barely educated, even I can appreciate the scale of the universe.And from this perch in space, for this moment at least, it seems unimportant whether someone made it, or if it made itself.

~ Stephanie Oakes

He was so close his breath touched my cheek. Staring into his eyes, I could almost forget about the nightmare. I could almost forget about Mama. Like the woods back in Virginia, his eyes changed color with his mood—greener when he laughed and darker, like now, when he was angry or worried. They were kind, serious, intelligent eyes that crinkled in the corners when he smiled.

~ Katherine Fleet

Fragments of energy sizzled against my skin where he touched me, like sparks that shoot from a sparkler you played with as a kid.

~ Jodie Andrefski

My own drawing was a house made of books, but where there should have been a door, there was a book, and where there should have been windows, there were books, and where the chimney should have been open to let the smoke out, a book was covering the hole, so if anyone was in the house, they couldn't get out. They'd suffocate, to be found years later, a desiccated corpse still marking its place in the book it had been reading with a knobby finger bone, head caved in by an avalanche of fallen books. As I said, I liked books.

~ Nova Ren Suma

All it takes is one small voice to make a difference. ~Artum Keogh~

~ Shawn Reilly

A dark voice within warned him to stop, but Aaron brushed it off. He flashed Holden a patronizing smile. “All right, then. Why not here? I have no problem giving you a fair fight, considering our history.”Slowly Holden relaxed his arms. There was a dark glimpse of metal, and then he took quick aim with his right hand. The short, lonely barrel of a gun stared Aaron in the eye. Even in his surprised state, Aaron could see what he was up against. An innocuous-looking Remington 1911, its wood-grip base outdated in style, but its precision and reliability lauded throughout the years.“Considering our history,” Holden said through his teeth, “I have no interest in fair.

~ Deidre Huesmann

Lying flat on my back, with my toes dipped into the lake, I stared at the stars for a second. I guess I should have pondered their beauty and realized the rarity of a sky unsaturated by city lights, or something. But it occurred to me that you could probably see stars from the vast majority of the earth. It was city lights that were actually rare.

~ Emily Adrian

In the ensuing silence, I have the time to contemplate the word cute – how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

~ John Green

I snatched my gaze away from hers and tugged at the collar of my shirt. I wanted to know how she could talk with such authority on the subject. I wanted to know what evil she’d seen, but I wanted even more to escape the narrow store aisle. Warning bells pealed in my brain. 'She’s crazy. Don’t get involved.

~ Katherine Fleet

Her grin changed her quiet presence into something altogether different, something that made it hard to look away. There were lots of pretty girls in my hometown, including my on-again, off-again girlfriend, but no one who looked like this odd girl with her sprinkle of freckles and ragged haircut. Had someone attacked her head with a pair of scissors?

~ Katherine Fleet

Samir loves Joe’s face. He studies it every day in class: a face as old as his own but already, in eighteen years, the cli s and hills and odd proportions of its geography have been shaped by life’s weather. Samir likes to observe the ever-watchful green eyes, hidden in their shadowy alcoves over the at nose and cheekbones, and the heavy brow that scrunches up with Joe’s moods – all those sculptural planes could have been carved by Easter Islanders. en there’s the pout of his lips, the pucker of their concentration or the twist of their anger. But most of all, Samir examines the thoughts as they cross the wide-open landscape of the face. Tries hard to read their cloud shapes from the merest shadow.

~ Peter Bunzl

Darkness doesn't have fingers that twist into my flesh.

~ S.m. Parker

Be happy. Be free. You have a universe inside you.

~ Sophia Elaine Hanson

Words have power, and sometimes, they stay withyou for life. It’s up to you to allow those words to define who you become.

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

His chair glides a few inches closer and he's in my face, all shoulders and cologne.

~ S.m. Parker

A small metal marble pinballs within my chest, banging and clanging against all the routes inside me.

~ S.m. Parker

I listen to his heartbeat. Hear him breathe. As though becomes motion and motion becomes all that lies between him and his end. As the black Is burning blue with the light of tiny funeral pyres. As his missiles and bullets take away his enemy. All they were and will ever be. I can taste it in his whispers. See it in the tiny photograph he has taped to his console. All he thinks of amid this loveless dance. All he cares about here on the edge of forever, is her. He does not want to die. Not because he is afraid. Simply because of he cannot bear the thought of leaving her behind. And there, in that tiny moment, I envy him.

~ Amie Kaufman

When we’ve decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.

~ Celine Kiernan

Lying on my bed, my brain cyclones with thoughts of men and boys and boys and men. All making the wrong choices.

~ S.m. Parker

If you get sick again? Alec, stop hiding behind that. We start dying the day we are born. If everyone thought the way you do, no one would ever go after their dreams. There would be a ton of unhappy people moping around.

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.

~ Julie Murphy

But what she feels is sometimes hard to express...Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.

~ Sonya Hartnett

I’m starting to think that you have a really bad habit of trying to save me.”She turns shy and looks down. “You are worth saving.

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head

~ Craig A. Hart

Believe in your dreams for that is what makes you magical.

~ Deborah Sue Crews

Nolan was the only one who knew the real Lexi Shaw, and that was exactly how I intended to keep it.

~ Rebecca Phillips

Being a Queen will Always be in Style!

~ Anya Valentino

It was stupid how a rumor could all but fuck up your life. How what others thought of you really affected how they treated you.

~ J.l. Beck

I picked up the blue tube again, unscrewed the cap, and squeezed a perfect line of paint onto the palate. As soon as I brushed it on the canvas, I was responsible for it, for the inevitable imperfections. My world had always been like that paint, left on a palate. That color was a passive observer. But not it wanted to make something of itself. And I was terrified.

~ Kate Scelsa

In a really good thrift store you feel like you're in a room with all of these stories, and it's up to you to go and find the stories that you want to bring home with you. And then when you wear the clothes, they help you tell a new story, but they're bringing that old part with them and with you and you're benefiting from that in a way that you can't even really understand.

~ Kate Scelsa

What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?

~ Kate Scelsa

You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

~ Alexandra Sirowy

For a while there's nothing I can do but stand in the middle of the road, because going forward hurts too much. Going forward means continuing to try, when trying is so hard. The world is filled with idiots and assholes and monsters. Where are the guardian angels?

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

I'm not going to be raped. I'm not going to be murdered. I'm going to bring him to justice so this never happens to anyone else. I'm not going to think like a victim. I'm going to think like a winner. Because that's what I am. I'm Ruthless, by God, and I need to act like it.

~ Carolyn Lee Adams

Look. Vegan, gluten-free quiche.What exactly makes it quiche?Well, the shape, I guess. It's quiche shaped.Sounds great.Your sarcasm is not appreciated.Sounds gross.Thank you. Honesty.

~ Kate Scelsa

I'd waited so long for his kiss, and it was so much more, so much better than I had dared imagine. Golden sunshine burst behind my closed eyelids as I became a being entwined with the sun.His hands pulled me against his body and I melted into him, my limbs tingling and warm. Amon's mouth moved over mine, slowly, like he could make the kiss last forever.

~ Colleen Houck