Young Adult Quotes

I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until ever last one of us was gone.

~ Aj Eversley

I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

~ Alex Lane

Celerity: noun, mass noun; an ability possessed by certain Que Cum Virtute Judicium (Virts) increasing the mobility or swiftness of movement

~ Alex Lane

But just being whatever it is that I am . . . I don’t think that makes me a monster. Believe me, I know. ere are plenty of real monsters walking around out there in the world. ey look respectable, but can’t hide who they are from me. Real monsters hurt people for pleasure, or for no reason at all—they’re just not as well armed as I am.

~ Michael Selden

You see the world for what it is and what it could be,” Jack says. “What you don’t see is the gaping chasm in between … and that’s what I found.

~ Caroline George

To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

~ Caroline George

She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.

~ Linda Gerber

This was her heritage. Her people. So why did she feel so small and weak? So far removed from it?

~ Linda Gerber

I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.

~ Lauren Nicolle Taylor

The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops looking for you.And there you are - under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree - and you don't want to give up, because maybe she's just biding her time. But maybe she's wandered off...

~ Rainbow Rowell

You're such a dork.But I'm your dork.

~ Ashley Royer

Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no rules.

~ Aimee Friedman

And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wanted to go with him to see them, and if he listened to you talk like he actually cared about what you were saying? And if he tried to protect you when other people tried to tell you what to do, as if they owned you? And if he has the handsomest face you've ever seen, no matter if the skin has been damaged, because he's just lovely even so?

~ Caroline Leech

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Be selfish sometimes. Love yourself. If you always put others before you, you will find yourself feeling beaten down by the world and that will make you bitter. Don’t let the world make you bitter, not when you have such a beautiful soul.

~ Spencer Hoshino

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

~ P.j. Parker

Thunderbird ascended on the heady currents of air that bore her high above the vast landscape of Túwaqachi. She stretched her broad wings, the heat lifting her through the silence, her glossy brown feathers shimmering in the sunlight.

~ P.j. Parker

The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.

~ P.j. Parker

For whom do you cry, my son?” the Great Spirit asked.“I do not know.”“Yes, you do.

~ P.j. Parker

This is a time of change,” the Shaman said. “This is a time of enormous power.

~ P.j. Parker

We must treat with respect our world and all upon it. Túwaqachi is not inherited from our ancestors, it has been loaned to us by our children.

~ P.j. Parker

Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?

~ P.j. Parker

The Sun Dagger appeared on the rock face directly above the Shaman’s shadowed head. It dazzled within the shade as the sunlight slipped through a gap in the overhead slabs. The dagger cut slowly down the rock, slicing through the very center of the etched spiral. “The middle of time,” Chaco whispered to himself.

~ P.j. Parker

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

~ P.j. Parker

One large cat bounded up the side of the outcrop to stand in full view on an overhanging boulder. She stared down at them, inside their protective enclosure, tilting her head from side to side. Her scarred yellow-brown coat was immaculately groomed, but the long tufting hair of her snout was matted with the bright red smear of uncongealed blood from a recent kill. Her upper lip curved over the top of foot-long saber teeth.

~ P.j. Parker

We the People . . . The People of the Long House.

~ P.j. Parker

The Day of Trouble is Near

~ P.j. Parker

We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.

~ P.j. Parker

West Point—The Key to the Continent and Independence.

~ P.j. Parker

No words in our ledgers could do justice to this sublime beauty,” Captain Lewis said. “The expedition should have brought a camera obscura.”Peter wasn’t familiar with the words, but no matter. He knew he was part of something magnificent—something greater than himself or the Corps of Discovery. And he knew what it was. It was America. And it was beautiful.

~ P.j. Parker

I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.

~ P.j. Parker

Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.

~ P.j. Parker

We live in a complicated society, Bromley—one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?

~ P.j. Parker

Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light’s father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.

~ P.j. Parker

The Sleepin’ Fox Catches No Poultry.

~ P.j. Parker

A scratching of melody comes from the radio, chords rising open as the land that carries us, rhythm mimicking our passage down the road, harmony making this life seem it should be only that. We sing along to what songs have always been about- beginning, going on, breaking up, forgiving, We sing in missed words and broken phrases as glints of tiger moths fly at us like snow, streaking the windshield over.

~ Susan Froderberg

There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.

~ P.j. Parker

You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.

~ S. Jae-Jones

Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this

~ Victoria Aveyard