Young Adult Quotes

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

~ Gwenn Wright

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.

~ Aya Ling

A memory of her father flitted through her consciousness. The time he played a slow, melodic tune on the saxophone in the misty rain of the yard on a summer’s night, surrounded by the patio’s twinkling lights. She remembered peering out the window and feeling like she was catching a glimpse of another world. One that was timeless and majestic. She touched his saxophone after that as if she were touching the hand of God, wishing to hold onto that feeling forever.

~ Sage Steadman

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

~ Tara Kelly

But in her heart she truly believed she was a better lady than Lady Dorothea ever was. Was it wrong to think she was nobler in her heart than the true nobleman's daughter?

~ Melanie Dickerson

She's a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

~ Kelly Risser

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

~ Laini Taylor

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

~ Libba Bray

ARE YOU CRAZY? I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

~ Richelle Mead

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

~ Laini Taylor

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

~ Jane Yolen

At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,And the sun with its brightness,And the snow with its whiteness,And the fire with all the strength it hath,And the lightning with its rapid wrath,And the winds with their swiftness along their path,And the sea with its deepness,And the rocks with their steepness,And the earth with its starkness:All these I place,By God's almighty help and graceBetween myself and the powers of darkness!

~ Madeleine L'engle

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

~ Laini Taylor

His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.

~ Suzanne Collins

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

~ Priya Ardis

Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome into his house, so I might burn it down. But then his daughter takes my hand, and I feel all the lies fall heavy on my shoulders. They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.

~ Pierce Brown

Well, can you tell her that?He looked down at his feet. I will. I will.Guy-speak for, I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

~ Priya Ardis

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

~ Priya Ardis

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

~ Priya Ardis

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

~ Priya Ardis

Unhappy people needs your smile more than Happy people do

~ Vianka Van Bokkem

Aren't we forever?

~ Cassandra Clare

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.

~ Christopher Paolini

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

~ Priya Ardis

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

~ E.j. Stevens

Faris turned on him. Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning?He looked startled. One does not wear mourning for a servant.You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant.He regarded her anger, aghast. What then? What else could he be?Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, Glove to my hand. Slowly she closed her fists. Everything.

~ Caroline Stevermer

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...

~ Michael K. Bialys

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.

~ Nikolas Lee

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

~ Carlyle Labuschagne

The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.

~ William D. Burt

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic. - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

~ Jana Oliver

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch

~ Andrea K. Höst

From DW:I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. I'm not going to be the government's bitch.

~ Tamara Rose Blodgett

Help me out,” I pleaded. “You’ve left me alone to deal with this situation, and now we’re being dealt the consequences.”I swore I heard Tom growl. I actually pulled the phone from my ear to stare at it to make sure it hadn’t turned into a tiny lion.

~ Laura Kreitzer

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.

~ Jefferson Smith

Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.

~ Claire Chilton

The Dreaming is always; forever... it's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

~ Kate Constable

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, Journey of the Chosen.

~ Richard Nance

I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there’s an app for that.

~ Laura Kreitzer