Young Adult Fiction Quotes

Some people are born to weirdness,” Jerry said, “and others have weirdness thrust upon them.

~ Tom Upton

I don’t mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.

~ C. Kennedy

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

~ Margaret A. Edwards

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.

~ Emmy Laybourne

. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?

~ Sarah Alderson

Then why don't I tell on him?If they don't, why don't I?Because.Because I am safe this way,silent unnoticed.

~ Thalia Chaltas

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

~ Caroline B. Cooney

My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know

~ Kennedy Vega

And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.

~ Courtney Brandt

Once more for Britain,� I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

~ Courtney Brandt

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

~ Kennedy Vega

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

~ Kennedy Vega

I'm so sorry, bright little thing.For what, my lord?: I asked, my voice small and lost in the dim air.His words caught in his throat as he answered. For not making the world a place where you could choose to fight for yourself.

~ Lesley Livingston

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

~ Bella James

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

~ Bella James

It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

~ Stephen Chbosky

I think music is seasonal. In the summer my taste changes.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it’s jaws and wouldn’t let me or my conscience go.

~ Alexandra Bracken

If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire.

~ Shannon Hale

I know you’re scared. I’m scared too, all of the time. But I have been running for the last six years and I can’t run anymore. Our world is falling apart. We aren’t living, not really. We are just… surviving.

~ Jennifer Wilson

Rin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead.

~ Shannon Hale

Cross my heart, it's the truth. My Ma consulted a Seer when I was born. He's fated to marry a girl that wears that ring, she said.” “Did she now?” I said. “Well, this is in mad fashion in Mahmonir, so, prepare yourself, you're going to be overburdened with wives once the word gets around!

~ Sonal Panse

When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us.

~ Nina Lacour

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

~ Shawn Stewart Ruff

Tea shook his head in dismay. “This is the end, Burt

~ Jamie Scallion

Go back to the band, Egg. Please.” - Bex

~ Jamie Scallion

My head’s swimming. Sorry, sis. I’m a useless brother. You’re best off shot of me. - Burt

~ Jamie Scallion

I want you to kick Egg, Tea and Clipper out of the band!” - Daisy

~ Jamie Scallion

Why am I the only one who thinks she’s messing with us? - Egg

~ Jamie Scallion

Everything is about to go seriously tits up. - Clipper

~ Jamie Scallion

Whatever you just thought of, I’m not doing it.” Egg

~ Jamie Scallion

It feels like there is a giant man inside my head blowing up an enormous balloon. The balloon is made of spikes and the man is shouting very loudly.' Egg

~ Jamie Scallion

Tomorrow I have to break Clipper’s heart. Really bust it open. - Tea

~ Jamie Scallion

I got it wrong – I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. - Burt

~ Jamie Scallion

Does this make us the biggest band on the planet or what?” Burt

~ Jamie Scallion

We’ve been thinking about stage costumes for the ‘Satellites’ section,” Burt said brightly. “I think we should all dress as an element.”Egg frowned. “How do you dress up as water?”“I’ve thought about that and it would be a blue leotard and white kilt,” Burt replied earnestly.

~ Jamie Scallion

I gotta look out for my band mates. - Tea

~ Jamie Scallion

I’m not sure what’s more worrying. The list of demands or the fact he seems unaware the French stopped using francs in the last century and that Africa is a continent?” - Jerome

~ Jamie Scallion

What an almighty balls-up. Who snorts a wasp? No sane person snorts a live wasp. It’s like putting your hand up a tiger’s arse. - Egg

~ Jamie Scallion

You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran

~ Cassandra Clare