Young Adult Fiction Quotes

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

~ Simone Elkeles

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

~ Simone Elkeles

You were lookin’ at me like you wanted to kiss me.”I force a laugh. “Yeah, right,” I say sarcastically.“Nobody’s watchin’ if you want to, you know, try it. Not to brag, but I’m somewhat of an expert.

~ Simone Elkeles

You can’t keep her.”I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

~ Simone Elkeles

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

~ Simone Elkeles

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

~ Simone Elkeles

Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.”“I hate you, too.

~ Simone Elkeles

Luis is right there.” I point to the corner of the yard, where my little brother is the centre of attention doing imitations of barnyard animals. I have yet to inform him that talent isn’t as much of a chick magnet when you get into junior high.

~ Simone Elkeles

Whoa, who was that?”“Madison Stone,” Kiara mutters.“Introduce me to her.”“Why?”Because I know it’ll annoy the shit out of you.

~ Simone Elkeles

I like that girl more than I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ about what other people think when I’m six feet under.

~ Simone Elkeles

I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.

~ Simone Elkeles

Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don’t trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.

~ Simone Elkeles

Listen, I didn’t ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents’ DNA, I’ve got them, and I’m not ashamed to use ’em.

~ Simone Elkeles

He grinned at me and whispered, “I’m going to kiss you now. It’ll be a big one, so don’t hit me.

~ Jennifer Echols

You’ve got a big ego, Fuentes.”“That’s not all I’ve got.

~ Simone Elkeles

This was about to go very bad, because Adam was going to cry. “I miss you,” he said, and his voice broke.

~ Jennifer Echols

Can you put your hands on my crot

~ Jennifer Echols

The Professor doesn’t have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I’d even settle for being called Chard.

~ Simone Elkeles

Boys don’t gossip.”“Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect.

~ Jennifer Echols

I wanted to remind you that you do not allow me to deliver boats, as I have been known to crash them.

~ Jennifer Echols

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Oh.” My dad actually looked sheepish. “It’s one o’clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn’t realise what was going on in here.”“What’s going on in here?” Cameron asked suspiciously.“Maturity.” My dad backed out of the room and closed the door.

~ Jennifer Echols

Who’s driving the boat?”Over the motor, I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

~ Jennifer Echols

I had shaved my beard for her-a huge disappointment, because I’d enjoyed my three weeks looking like a bank robber.

~ Jennifer Echols

But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I’d pressed into it.

~ Jennifer Echols

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

~ Ally Condie

If I stay. If I live. It’s up to me.All this business about medically induced comas is just doctor talk. It’s not up to the doctors. It’s not up to the absentee angels. It’s not even up to God who, if He exists, is nowhere around right now. It’s up to me.

~ Gayle Forman

I love you, Tess McGee. I don’t do big funny or heartfelt speeches in front of people at birthday parties, but I’m excellent in private alcoves in beer gardens.” He paused. “Okay, that sounded really bad, what I mean is …”I kissed him into silence. I pressed my forehead against his with a sigh. “I love you, too, Toby. In fact, that’s what I was going to tell you before we walked into the beer garden. Right before the really bad singing started.”Toby chuckled. He let out a sigh of relief. “Ready to reminisce?”I whispered my final word before he closed the distance.“Always.

~ C.j. Duggan

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn

~ Tara Michener

I don’t know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I’m not one of them,” I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)“You are. You just don’t know yet.” (Victor)

~ A.b. Whelan

Oh, God … you’re so beautiful,” I said in a weak voice, my head enchanted. He smiled at me and turned to the thin, elderly lady next to him whose skin seamed with wrinkles.“She must still have a fever,” Victor said, fighting a smile, which just made him even more breathtaking.

~ A.b. Whelan

See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile.” (Victor)

~ A.b. Whelan

Because once you give your body to a guy, there's no taking it back. And once you've done that it opens up feelings, emotions and vulnerabilities you never knew you were capable of having. I'm not ready to give him my heart. What if he breaks it?

~ J. Sterling

But when you don't follow them up with any action, they're completely pointless. They're just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing.

~ J. Sterling

I was almost awestruck when I realized that like this meant without a condom. Jack's vulnerability shone through him in that exact moment like a lighthouse beacon in a raging storm. Somewhere along the way, we'd crossed an imaginary line where feelings and emotions blurred into the unknown. A place neither of us dared to go before.

~ J. Sterling

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

~ Saul Tanpepper

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

~ R.s. Gompertz

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley