Young Adult Quotes

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

~ Christina Lauren

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

~ Christina Lauren

I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

~ Lauren Oliver

Of course you did. I took a step closer. You have strengths, Tavish, that I greatly admire. You're skills helped saved Rafe's and my lives, for which I'll always be indebted to you. But there are other kinds of strength too. Quiet, gentle ones that are just as valuable, even if you don't entirely understand them.

~ Mary E. Pearson

I promise I'll protect you now. I won't let them touch you again. I know you'll try. I can do more than try.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Violet moves, a readjustment, and I expect her to pull away. But instead, she leans further into me, her head on my shoulder, and her sweet scent becomes a warm blanket. No other place I'd rather be in the world right now. No place at all.

~ Katie Mcgarry

In high school, though, if you call someone out on their shit you get bullied. It’s really a horrible time in life. Honestly, I don’t even know why there is an entire genre of books dedicated to it.

~ Sage Steadman

You know how some people develop addictions to manage their overwhelming emotions? Some people become alcoholics, coke fiends, potheads, pill-poppers, over-eaters, sex addicts or meth-heads. Well, Ann seemed to have a similar addiction to anger, he concluded. Feeling angry served the dual purpose of keeping others at a safe distance while drowning out all other competing and overwhelming emotions.

~ Sage Steadman

My days are filled with you, and for that I am more grateful than you could ever know

~ Kennedy Vega

She's my girl now and I'll do anything for her at any time. I'm in love with her.

~ Katie Mcgarry

I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about.

~ Katie Mcgarry

And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.

~ Courtney Brandt

Once more for Britain,� I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

~ Courtney Brandt

The most dangerous guy at my school-the lone person who makes me feel safe-is reveling in the way I am touching him.

~ Katie Mcgarry

My best friend has warned me to stay away. Violet, a girl raised by the Terror, has warned me to stay away, but even after digesting her advice, knowing the rumors and experiencing what I have, I can't leave. The bandage on Razor's arm and the cuts and bruises along his side testify to how dangerous his life is, but with one long look into those beautiful eyes , I know that I'm a lost cause to logic. I've already fallen in love.

~ Katie Mcgarry

I'm cold and clammy and hot at the same time, yet I'm free. I lift my head and the autumn breeze feels good against my skin. Free. I'm officially outside the box. I'm free. Free is terrifying and open and it's similar to being a bit lost-but it still feels...free.

~ Katie Mcgarry

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

~ Kennedy Vega

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

~ Kennedy Vega

A twinge of fear entered Gwenwhyfar’s heart. It was the first she had heard of the sea farms lying in the path of danger. She wondered what had befallen a different Norseman of her acquaintance. Had her poor bodyguard, Finn, perished in one of those raids?

~ Jennifer Mckeithen

I am light and stardust in his hands.

~ Sierra Abrams

I'm so sorry, bright little thing.For what, my lord?: I asked, my voice small and lost in the dim air.His words caught in his throat as he answered. For not making the world a place where you could choose to fight for yourself.

~ Lesley Livingston

Draft ThreeBecause I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, but quickly turn into a symphony carved across your skin; a hymn in the web of your veins; a harmony stitched into the lining of your soul

~ Krystal Sutherland

You're not who I thought you'd be, Cas. No? Your so much better.

~ Amy Tintera

I can taste the good-bye on his lips.

~ Marie Lu

Because I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, but quickly turn into a symphony carved across your skin; a hymn in the web of your veins; a harmony stitched into the lining of your soul.

~ Krystal Sutherland

After you leftI stared at the drivewayFeeling its emptinessWondering if you’d return.After you leftI thought about your questionsWishing I hadn’t been so bluntWondering if I scared you away.After you leftI remembered how you felt in my arms.How you fit so perfectly there. Like my guitar.Wondering if I should have kissed you when I had the chance.After you leftI sat in my roomRemembering all the things you said, andWondering about all the things you didn’t.After you leftI sat in silence.Missing you in a way I didn’t quite understand.Wondering if you’d ever come back.

~ Tamara Ireland Stone

They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Because even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her --he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electricity, but there was something artificial about it. What he wanted was fire: heat and spark and flame.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

I love you too much to lose you over something so little. “Roommates With Benefits.

~ Nicole Williams

Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

May your eye go to the Sun, To the wind your soul... You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

~ Jennifer Niven

It's me, asking him to let me in. Asking all of them to give a chance to show them that, deep down, I'm not who they think I am. Or, maybe I'm exactly who they think I am, but I no longer want to be.

~ Tamara Ireland Stone

Actually, judging by Pinterest alone, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would look forward to hanging out in such a beautiful library. Just not people Peter knows. He thinks I'm so quirky. I'm not planning on being the one to break the news to him that I'm actually not that quirky, that in fact lots of people like to stay home and bake cookies and scrapbook and hang out in libraries. Most of them are probably in their fifties, but still. I like the way he looks at me, like I am a wood nymph that he happened upon one day and just had to take home to keep.

~ Jenny Han

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.

~ Bella James

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

~ Bella James

Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.

~ Renee Ahdieh

I- Irsa took a careful breath to steady her words. I have felt alone for most of my life. Until you. She placed the shell on his chest. But I promise I won't feel alone anymore. I will never forget. She stood on shaky feet. I will always remember. I love you Rahim al-Din Walad . Thank you for loving me in return.

~ Renee Ahdieh

Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done.

~ Renee Ahdieh

You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.

~ Renee Ahdieh