Ya Quotes

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

~ John Green

You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.

~ Stephanie Perkins

It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

~ John Green

He's exasperated. I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

~ Stephanie Perkins

Sitting on the train I watch the scenery speeding by, notice a cobweb in the top corner of the window, undulating with a gentle breeze I can’t feel. I lean back in my seat and take my book out of the carrier bag. Turning it over in my hand, it feels warm. It feels how I want to feel; full of knowledge, full of the future.The time I’ve spent staying in bed smoking dope I’ve been hibernating, recuperating and gaining strength. I’m weak socially, but being away from other drug users has made me resilient. It’s allowed my mind and body to heal and mend. As if the winter is over, I’ve come out stronger now. I’m on my own. I have the choice of what to do with my life.I’m going to stay clean. I’m going to be the woman I can be.

~ Christine Lewry

Sitting cross-legged on her bed, I watch her take out her gear. She’s been smoking so much the room stinks of it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen her do it so often I’ve resisted the urge. It’s surreal, like I’m watching me from outside my body. My willpower is fragile at the best of times, but my resolve is always weaker in the evening.I feel a dread and a revulsion for what I’m about to do, but there’s a stronger feeling, an unutterable longing. I crack.‘Give us a line,’ I say.

~ Christine Lewry

Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Eugene's got a fake ID, and he actually gets away with using it because he looks like he's thirty-six, thanks to his devotion to tasseled shoes and his ridiculous carpet of chest hair.

~ Flynn Meaney

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

~ Flynn Meaney

Great. Darcy is the ruler of our school. Prety soon, Julius is going to be like Singapore - you'll get a $500 fine for chewing gum or making out in the hallways.

~ Flynn Meaney

The dimples spread across his face again and Megan couldn’t help but melt a little

~ Debra Chapoton

But the thought of moving on from something I never had is depressing.

~ Susane Colasanti

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn’t hiding its heart. It wanted to be found out...It felt like those moments when you go to a party and you're standing around for a long time, going, I don't fit in here, what am I going to talk to these people about? And everybody's getting drunk, and then you find this one person, and you end up sitting in some corner talking about all these arcane things.And then before you know it you're having a conversation about the meaning of life and it's four o’clock in the morning. That kind of feeling, that kind of intimacy — I felt like that's what I got from YA.

~ Libba Bray

The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.

~ Melody Manful

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.

~ Jonathan L. Howard

This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the Adam Project.

~ Michael Grant

Uh…I’ve seen you around here a couple of times,” he said again, staring at the book I held. “‘I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.’”I stared. “What?”His lopsided grin spread into a full one, and it felt like someone had socked me in the chest. “It’s a quote from Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray. It’s one of my favorite books.”Hot and smart. And apparently he was a real-life boy.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

~ Gwenn Wright

I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh, but the heroine, she lets this man make her decisions. And I thought, that may not be the particular fantasy or trope that works for me.But listen man, I read Wuthering Heights. I wanted me a little Heathcliff action. I mean, why can't we indulge that fantasy and also be like, “And now I would like the ERA passed, please. Also, this lipstick is fuckin' killer.

~ Libba Bray

I’m not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I’m awake. And afraid.

~ Christine Fonseca

All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.

~ Jonathan L. Howard

Now you're an adult, Katya! he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.

~ Jonathan L. Howard

Jenna walked in between desks and plonked herself down behind hers, noticing AGAIN that the teacher hadn’t graced the class with his zitty presence. She thought Mr. Kennan needed to get fired, which said a lot, because she rarely paid attention to ugly teachers. She’d discussed this with the principal two weeks back when she’d been sent to his office after getting caught sleeping. She’d told him that if he employed more hot teachers like Mr. Daniels then maybe she wouldn’t pass out from boredom. The principal gave her a week’s detention because of that comment, saying that she needed to take things more seriously. But she WAS being serious.Jenna Hamilton from Graffiti Heaven (Chapter 28).

~ Marita A. Hansen

Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it. Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced

~ Paul Guildea

The fact that at the moment the distinction is being made, a young adult, as opposed to an adult, is the one reading it. In other words, I don’t entirely believe in the distinction. A great book is a great book, and it’s impossible to say what part of a person is going to connect to it.

~ Kristin Cashore

Violet: You're an asshole. Onyx: Thank you, it's something that took an eternity to perfect.

~ Jessica Shirvington

Bitterblue had never seen a man naked, and she was curious. She decided the universe owed her a few minutes, just a few, to satisfy her curiosity. So she went to him and knelt, which shut him up.

~ Kristin Cashore

My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.

~ Christine Fonseca

There are few things I hate more than feeling weak. Needing help or failing top the list. The worst, however, is knowing that all three just happened.

~ Christine Fonseca

A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck... sweet. The feel of lips on my own... forbidden.

~ Christine Fonseca

Ien stopped her voice with more kisses, more promises of a world filled with only them.

~ Christine Fonseca

She opens her eyes as the fury continues, pinning me with her glare. Her gaze reached into my soul as I spin the music back to the simple melody at its core—our melody. A moment of recognition washes over her, followed by regret, fear, terror. An entire kaleidoscope of emotions exists within a single heartbeat.

~ Christine Fonseca

I press my lips hard against hers, tasting her desire, her pain, her love, her confusion. At once I’m in two lives, two worlds, two places.

~ Christine Fonseca

He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

~ Christine Fonseca

I’d accepted my judgment without question. Agreed to live a mortal life. I didn’t know my memories would come with me, didn’t know I’d relive them every day.Death would have been more merciful.

~ Christine Fonseca

I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.

~ Christine Fonseca

Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity.

~ Christine Fonseca

There is no way of stopping death, not here. You can prolong it. But at some point, it is bound to catch up to you.

~ Nicole Sobon

She slips into the seat at our table, refusing to look up at me. I reach for her hand, sending a shiver through me when our finger tips touch. She glances at me, her eyes filled with a feral fear that reaches into my depths, pulling on emotions I refuse to acknowledge. Things I can’t feel now. Won’t feel ever again.

~ Christine Fonseca

My thoughts war. Part of me needs to protect her, part of me wants something else. Something vile. Wrong.

~ Christine Fonseca