Young Adult Quotes

Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something great.

~ Jonathan Yanez

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

~ Christy A. Campbell

The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.

~ Christy A. Campbell

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?

~ Christy A. Campbell

Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn’t make sense now. I’m just going home.

~ Stacey Donovan

We sat in silence for a while. I gazed through the window at the night sky, wondering idly at all that space, all that blackness, all that nothing, and as I sat there looking up at the emptiness I began thinking about the creek, the hills, the woods, the water... how everything goes around and around and never really changes. How life recycles everything it uses. How the end product of one process becomes the starting point of another, how each generation of living things depends on the chemicals released by the generations that have proceeded it... I don't know why I was thinking about it. It just seemed to occur to me.

~ Kevin Brooks

I kiss him. My mouth on his. Without fear. Without thought. All of my emotions, my love, my trust, wrapped up in this embrace.

~ Katie Mcgarry

I was never able to accept anyone else’s support but my own –

~ Simona Panova

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

~ Simona Panova

You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.

~ Simona Panova

Hmmm, good isn’t fun, but I’ll try,” he whispers to me. ~ The Light Tamer

~ Devyn Dawson

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

~ Simona Panova

I’d love to try to tame you... And I would simply adore it if you turn out untamable –

~ Simona Panova

And what if you try to kill me? Or worse: to kiss me?

~ Simona Panova

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

~ Simona Panova

Insane love.Loving insanity.Insanity and love...

~ Simona Panova

If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line.

~ Jason Schmidt

Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.

~ Jason Schmidt

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

~ Kwame Alexander

It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was...perfect.

~ Sarah Ockler

I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff

Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

~ Shelly Crane

Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

I'd love to wrap myself inside your sadness and pretend it is mine

~ Amy Reed

My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

~ Simona Panova

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.

~ Gwenn Wright

Dear, sweet, beautiful girl

~ Tahereh Mafi

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

~ Simona Panova

After months of separation her friends still catalyzed her thoughts and challenged her opinions and wrangled with her emotions, and she was relieved to see that they still slid into the familiar patterns, the comfortable ruts of long-established personalities. It was nice but it also worried her. Could there be room for growth? How could you change around the people that knew you best, who knew you backwards and forwards and knew you so well that they defined themselves by you and you by them? How could you possibly evolve, like really evolve and become a whole person all on your own, when your own makeup was inextricably intertwined with someone else’s perception of themselves?

~ Katie Neipris

LAST YEAR, Honesty and I still talked, Laughed, Planned weekend activities together. Last year, I used to have friends, Speak, Live. Last year, Honesty lived, Loved, Laughed. But now— Now I live with the knowledge that Some things Kill others

~ Elana Johnson

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

~ John Green

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

~ Beth Nimmo

The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.

~ Simona Panova

Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.

~ Tess Oliver

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

~ Carrie Jones

He looked down at my fingers wrapped around his coat then lifted his eyes to mine. 'My tiny huntress, do you know what you've done to me?

~ Tess Oliver

My mind argued with itself about whether to adhere to proper etiquette or whether to fling aside all modesty and throw my arms around him. My feet chose the latter before my mind had a chance to settle it. I flew off the stool and landed in his embrace. Freezing rain drenched his coat and shirt. His arms wrapped around me tighter, and there was nothing so right as being pressed against Nathaniel Strider.

~ Tess Oliver

Nathaniel Strider could never love. He's obviously discovered early on that girls' hearts were vulnerable and all a lad needed was a penetrating gaze and a disarming smile and the world was at his feet.

~ Tess Oliver

I don't know how it happened. Through the din of the crowd, I heard this tiny scream. As small and distant as it was, it was like thunder in my head.' He looked up at me. Some of the blood had drained from his face making the dark circles under his eyes more pronounced. 'I knew it was you. I don't know how or why, but I knew it was you.

~ Tess Oliver