Young Adult Quotes

The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more. She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.

~ Shelly Crane

It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.

~ Kali Wallace

Sometimes Truth cannot be silenced.

~ Rachel L. Schade

I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don't go much further than this moment, and I fear there's a good reason for it. A sense of dread hung over today, a black cloud I still can't get rid of. It is an unease deep in the heart of me, feeding off my strength.

~ Victoria Aveyard

The only person in my head is me.Tibe is not the same. The crown has changed him, as you feared it would.The fire is in him, the fire that will burn all the world.And it is in your son, in the prince who will never change his blood and will never sit a throne. The only person in my head is me. The only person who has not changed is you. You are still the little girl in a dusty room, forgotten, unwanted, out of place. You are the queen of everything, mother to a beautiful son, wife to a king who loves you, and still you cannot find it in yourself to smile. Still you make nothing. Still you are empty. The only person in your head is you. And she is no one of any importance. She is nothing

~ Victoria Aveyard

Bethany had liked Miles because he made her laugh. He makes me laugh, too. Miles figured that digging up Bethany's grave, even that would've made her laugh. Bethany had had a great laugh, which went up and up, like a clarinetist on an escalator. It wasn't annoying. It had been delightful, if you liked that kind of laugh. It would have made Bethany laugh that Miles Googled “grave digging” in order to educate himself. He read an Edgar Allan Poe story. He watched several relevant episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and he bought Vicks®VapoRub™, which you were supposed to apply under your nose.

~ Kelly Link

But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings.

~ S. Elizabeth Dover

They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.

~ T.s. Pettibone

It's been a pleasure pleasing you.

~ T.s. Pettibone

It’s like a jolt of electricity, but worse.

~ Lee Davidson

Dude, it's mind control. That's got to be the best superpower ever!

~ Lee Davidson

In the year 2052, it's not love but hate that unites the world.

~ T.s. Pettibone

Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.

~ T.s. Pettibone

I heard our kid here is quite the scrapper.

~ Lee Davidson

If upper management found out, they’d send you off to the Probing Department.

~ Lee Davidson

He gives new meaning to the word bombed.

~ Lee Davidson

My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

~ Lee Davidson

You'll regret that, Bourkan.

~ T.s. Pettibone

You really are Captain Oblivious.

~ Lee Davidson

It's like a jolt of electric, but worse.

~ Lee Davidson

Duty over fear.

~ T.s. Pettibone

I am War. I am Death. I am the Unloved God.

~ T.s. Pettibone

Sometimes I wonder who the real monsters are. The ones without the hearts or the ones who rip them out - Bastion of Aberrants (In progress)

~ Azia Kaida

Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time.

~ Isabelle Hardesty

She looked at him and felt a dagger pierce her heart, then she felt a warm chocolate feeling swallow her senses.

~ Isabelle Hardesty

Be careful mi amor, don't hurt anyone this time. Cordia reminded Jade.

~ Isabelle Hardesty

The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans—or anything else—again.

~ Cameron Jace

Dorian's scar itched. It did that when he was agitated, or angry, or experiencing anything one might call emotion. Or when rain was on the horizon, but he didn't think that was entirely relevant to why it was itching now.

~ Melissa Grey

All night, I thought about that walk. The touch of the forest tickled my skin long after, while the scent lingered in my nostrils. It was unlike anything back home. There was a feeling in the atmosphere I couldn't shake--something that was trying to draw me back. I felt alive in that forest. --His Name is Moonlight

~ Kellie Thacker

I felt empowered by him, as if his very existence manipulated the balance of my nature from a shy little girl to wonder woman.

~ Kellie Thacker

You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.

~ Kellie Thacker

I'm going to tell you something I probably shouldn't.

~ Kellie Thacker

Just as he was looking at all the stars and wondering how many millions there were, they started to blink on and off repeatedly. He knew it was the Bach flying overhead. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, and slipped off into a restless sleep.

~ Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

With each step, one of them pulled off an earring or a hair extension or a bow and let it fall to the ground, so that by the time they reached the door they had left a trail of glittering accessories behind them. It looked like a grand parade had passed by, and no one had yet come to sweep up the confetti.

~ Damian Wampler

Depression is a funny thing. Some days you have the strength to get up out of bed and attempt to live your life as a normal human being, but others…you just don’t want to leave your room and socialize with the outside world—the world that you hate on days like this. You stay secluded in a tiny space, left alone to the thoughts that eat at your brain until you finally sit down and let them be thought.

~ Ashley Earley

My mind screams for me to run, but my feet are planted where they are. This can’t be happening. This can’t be real. There’s no way this is real!

~ Ashley Earley

How do you know I’m any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin

~ Claire M. Banschbach

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

Light or Death!

~ Brian A. Mcbride