Young Adult Quotes

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache.

~ Jodie B. Cooper

I fell back into my favorite chair and tucked my hands between my knees to stop them from shaking. I sucked in a deep breath, held it, and marveled at my own transformation into a ridiculous ninny.

~ Tess Oliver

Cold air clawed at my face, ripping tears from my eyes. I buried my face deep into Daniel's back and breathed in a mixture of familiar scents - almonds, oil paint, earth, and a hint of varnish. I didn't even question why I was on that bike. I just knew I was suppose to be.

~ Bree Despain

I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy.

~ E.j. Stevens

He searched for my gaze and the second he found it, I cracked a smile. “There it is.” He palmed his chest again and sighed. “All is right in the world again.

~ Shelly Crane

How can this be real?” I whispered. “I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?”“Try and stop me.

~ Serra Elinsen

My heart battered against my ribs, my breath stalled and I gazed up into his laughing, smiling eyes...eyes that suddently glowed crimson and cruel.

~ Terri Clark

Armani froze to the spot, unable to move. Her breath tightened in her lungs, shivers of awareness ran down her spine, the sudden energy zipping through her body announcing the shimmer of recognition.

~ Suzan Battah

I can feel myself slipping away. Slowly leaving who and what I am behind. - Dylan

~ Dannielle Wicks

And for the first time since I woke in the alley--I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to see Miya again, and Matthew and Ashlee and Sammy and Kai. I want to live long enough to see my mom and dad again, and my sister, Lily.

~ Dannielle Wicks

Do you know how easy it would be to kill you, Miya? I've thought about it--killing you...and you think I'm not a monster.--Dylan

~ Dannielle Wicks

You were right. I can't be trusted around people. What does that make me? A stuffed potato?

~ Dannielle Wicks

Their eyes find mine and they freeze. Emotions flicker across their faces quicker than I can identify, until finally they settle on one I recognize. One I see every time Miya looks at me. Love. - Dylan

~ Dannielle Wicks

He sighs. It's just, you said they're up there protecting us... He looks down at his hands in his lap. Then why didn't they protect me?

~ Dannielle Wicks

Something in me snaps. Since I woke in the alley I've been pushed down, feared and prosecuted for things out of my control. Well, enough is enough.

~ Dannielle Wicks

Clouds buzz by, unaware of the scary world below them. I envy them. I envy the easy way that they live and die. They never have to worry about tomorrow and what horrors or death it might bring.

~ Dannielle Wicks

Don’t do this self-sacrificing bullshit, Dylan. Not again. I’m sick and tired of it. For once, it would be nice if you would just let me help you. You deserve to live. You deserve to be as happy as any of us. You're not a monster. — Miya

~ Dannielle Wicks

You're killing me, little human.

~ Shelly Crane

They say past performance is indicative of future behavior. If there was any truth to that statement, then I knew I had to be careful of the choices I made. My decisions were much more crucial now, as they affected the entire human population. One wrong move, and I could possibly wipe out the world. That was one thing I definitely didn't want on my shoulders.

~ Christine Gabriel

My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my life. Fort and confusion grew. Its sensation was an overwhelming concoction of hate. The only things I knew - the only things keeping me remotely calm- was the following litany.My name is Eleanora Ada Stone. I was moved from home to home for seventeen years. I am now living on this god-forsaken island in Maine. I was being kept from a world of secrets. I have abilities. I am not human. I do not know what I am.

~ Jes Dory

Turn your pain into purpose.

~ Nelou Keramati

And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red. ~ The Fray Theory

~ Nelou Keramati

His shrill cries flood the forest like light engulfing a silhouette.

~ Nelou Keramati

You killed me.” My voice was unsteady.He held me close again. “I brought you back.”“Please tell me we only have to do that once.”He whispered against my ear, “I swear I won’t kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die.” It was a bad joke

~ Catrina Burgess

My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don’t think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

~ Catrina Burgess

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t forget who you are

~ Catrina Burgess

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

~ Catrina Burgess

I’ve heard the name before: Anubis. An Egyptian name. The name of a god.The god of the dead.

~ Kate Rooper

She comes closer to me. She is beautiful, in the way lightning striking across a storm-swept sky is beautiful: dangerous and distant.

~ Kate Rooper

She looks so broken, I don't want to hurt her more.

~ Dannielle Wicks

I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man’s chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up.

~ Dannielle Wicks

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

~ Shelly Crane

I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

~ Siobhan Davis

I wanted Kat out. Every cell of my being demanded that I protect her, even though I knew she was hella capable of doing so herself, but I wanted her far away from here. Hell, I'd keep her in Bubble Wrap if it weren't so damn creepy and also inconvenient, considering I had a terrible habit of obsessively popping the damn things until not a single bubble was left.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

You're into her. You're into the girl we came here to kill.

~ Stacey O'neale

The visions scared me. And I was scared to tell anyone about them. I didn’t want them to think I was a freak. Maybe I was. That scared me, too.

~ Michelle K. Pickett

After Nick rescued Kate from an attack at the football game they talk as he drives her home. I said that because I really did see a monster. I looked at Nick as we turned a corner in the road. You don't think I'm crazy do you?I like that quote because it symbolizes the transition in Kate's life. She has turned a corner in her life. She unknowingly has left the path of childish freedom and started down a path of danger and responsibility.

~ Karen Tjebben

My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.

~ Jennifer Walkup

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?

~ Jennifer Walkup

The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.

~ Jennifer Walkup