Young Adult Quotes

..they were always asking me lots of questions. Questions I didn't want to answer. They wanted to get to know me. Yeah, well, I wasn't interested in being known. I wanted to buy a t-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWNABLE.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

His hands still on his shoulders. “Hi,” he says. “Sorry.” “For what?” “For the fact that you are such a big flirt.” He laughs. “You’re the one in my lap. I was just sitting here minding my own business.” “Just the plane, then?” “Of course.” I try to stand up, but he pulls me back down again. “Man, the plane is really bumpy today,” he says.

~ Kasie West

Some human beings in their craftiness thought they can pretend to be good when they are actually bad.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Who am I kidding? This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s my life.

~ Zoe Cruz

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Have you thought of doing it? Being a cattle farmer? If that's what it's called? I think we should do that, but replace cattle with bunnies and then we don't milk or eat the bunnies. We just let them multiply. Then we'll take over the world. Me the queen. You the king. Our bunnies the army nobody can defeat.

~ Katie Mcgarry

We were perfectly placed, perfectly disposed to one another. Our pieces fit so well together, not in the way that puzzle pieces are carved to click, but in a clumsier, more accidental way; we were a city skyline – unplanned architectural mastery. Designed by the heavens, and you called me your angel – even when I was undeserving of that accolade. You’d call yourself the devil and I’d feel betrayed. Because for me, we were the same, either two sinners or two saints.

~ B.a. Perry

You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think I've outgrown the rules.

~ Sally Henson

They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.

~ David Arnold

I DON’T KNOW! I HAVE NO FREAKIN’ IDEA. I’M ONLY FIFTEEN. I want my mom.

~ Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me.

~ Amanda Hocking

But you’re right about one thing: he’s my best friend. I know him very well, and no matter what he said or did tonight, I’ve never seen him act this way with another girl. No one,” he repeated, “except you.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book.

~ Stephen Chbosky

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me.

~ Amanda Hocking

Darkness engulfed me...There was no ground below me, no sky above. Only the black, and the cold.

~ Amanda Hocking

Marika was a book nerd and had a TBR pile taller than her. She was a sucker for YA

~ Mirella Muffarotto

Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.

~ Ellen Hopkins

He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflecting in my own.

~ Amanda Hocking

I think music is seasonal. In the summer my taste changes.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.

~ Marissa Meyer

Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle or a dance as to whether you let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of your children. What kind of environment would they be growing up in with such a mother?

~ Krystal Sutherland

The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it’s jaws and wouldn’t let me or my conscience go.

~ Alexandra Bracken

The trouble was, I did know what I wanted from Grace Towne. I wanted to sleep with her, sure. I wanted her to be my girlfriend. A few years from now, I wanted to marry her. And then, when we were old, I wanted to drink peppermint tea and read Harry Potter to our grandchildren with her on the veranda of an old house out in the countryside as we watched a summer storm roll toward us. Was that so much to ask?

~ Krystal Sutherland

Wanna know the secret to nailing a great speech? It's simple--don't trust words.

~ Stephen David Hurley

Ember was watching me, green bright eyes in the shadows of the room. She crouched against the wall with her wings pressed close and her tail curled around herself. Even with her fangs slightly bared and her sides heaving with fear, she was still beautiful, elegant, fiery, everything my dragon wanted.

~ Julie Kagawa

If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire.

~ Shannon Hale

This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.

~ Tessa Emily Hall

Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.

~ Julie Kagawa

I know you’re scared. I’m scared too, all of the time. But I have been running for the last six years and I can’t run anymore. Our world is falling apart. We aren’t living, not really. We are just… surviving.

~ Jennifer Wilson

Rin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead.

~ Shannon Hale

It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.

~ Lisa Brown Roberts

Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.

~ Nicola Yoon

I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.

~ Nicola Yoon

From my bedroom window, I can see the sun peeping through the clouds. London certainly isn't a city noted for its climate, but I think, sooner or later, you get used to it, and live with the weather. For most of the year, everyone and everything seems to be tucked up cosily in grey cotton wool, but Dickens said that fog is a characteristic of London, didn't he? This climate could go hand in hand with my dismal humour.

~ Sarah Iles

A strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?

~ Matthew Quick