Young Adult Quotes

I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.

~ Jessica Brody

It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.

~ Jessica Brody

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

~ Claire Hennessy

There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

~ E. Katherine Kottaras

I’m so tired of crying.I’m so tired of losing.I’m just so tired.

~ Jessica Brody

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God.

~ Sully Tarnish

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance..[From Current Work In Progress]

~ Jenna Streety

An uneventful, quiet life together is more my idea of a romance.”“Really? Oh. Well. It won't get you featured in any of the ballads though.”“Yes,” he said, with a heavy sigh. “And that will be the great tragedy of my romance.

~ Sonal Panse

He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.

~ Sabrina Fedel

I can’t help to feel like they’re staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough.And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they’re right.

~ Jessica Brody

The thing that hurts the most, that makes it hard to sleep at night, is not being with you -Jess Tyler

~ Natalie Palmer

Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. How would you know?

~ Laura Ruby

Cross my heart, it's the truth. My Ma consulted a Seer when I was born. He's fated to marry a girl that wears that ring, she said.” “Did she now?” I said. “Well, this is in mad fashion in Mahmonir, so, prepare yourself, you're going to be overburdened with wives once the word gets around!

~ Sonal Panse

My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

~ Brian James

But there’s nothing.My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.

~ Jessica Brody

And why did he have to call me “quiet”? I hated being called quiet. People always said it like it was some kind of deficiency—like just because I didn’t put everything out there right away, I was unfriendly or arrogant. My mom had understood. You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room

~ Jenna Evans Welch

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

~ Estelle Maskame

The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher's Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal... the Rock Star's Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are.

~ Jessica Brody

Dark haired guys are so, so much better.

~ Estelle Maskame

It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.

~ Estelle Maskame

I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.

~ Estelle Maskame

I lovehow grown childrenwill still nametheir mothersthe mostbeautiful.It isas though,their eyeshave met the cascadingcurvesand goldensilhouettesof every woman.Yettheir soulsstilldrumto the beat  of theirmother'swarmth and care.

~ A Starry Eyed April

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

~ Estelle Maskame

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.

~ Estelle Maskame

We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.

~ Estelle Maskame

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.

~ Estelle Maskame

Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him -- though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. He made everything look so easy.

~ Rainbow Rowell

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight -- and Levi can't even read.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.

~ Jessi Kirby

The bent but unbroken ones.

~ Rick Yancey

When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us.

~ Nina Lacour

So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??

~ Amber J.

He smashed his lips together, and I knew what he was thinking. He always made that face before he brought up my mother. “Did it have anything to do with—”“Not everything is about my mom,” I snapped before he could get the words out. “Geez, you took one psychology class, and you think you’re frickin’ Freud.

~ K.j. Mcpike

See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.

~ Shawn Stewart Ruff

I get what he means, because I think I've played pretend my whole life. I don't know when, but a really long time ago, I decided who I wanted to be. And I've been acting like her -- whoever she is -- since. But I think the act is fading, and I don't know if I like the person I am beneath it all. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Because the whole fake it till you make it thing? It's not working for me.

~ Julie Murphy

You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.

~ Jesse Andrews

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants

~ Ann Howard Creel

If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets

~ Hitori Nakano