Young Adult Quotes

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.

~ Beverly K. Bachel

The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful.

~ Yangsze Choo

You’ve become a miserable bastard and I can’t deal with it anymore.”Bex on Egg – Book 2 “Having it

~ Jamie Scallion

What's wrong with all black?Egg - Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

I will not give up. I must not fail.Burt, Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces.About Egg, Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

His mind buzzed, excited by new possibilities.About Egg, Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it.Burt about Bex, Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

My old man tells me every chance he gets I’m “style over substance” and that I’ve never done anything of value in my life. I’m fifteen. What does he expect? Being “cool as” is the only thing anyone cares about.Burt, Book 1 Making it

~ Jamie Scallion

We are The RockATeers.”Burt – Book 2 “Having it

~ Jamie Scallion

When sober, which he hadn’t been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul.”Book 2 “Having it

~ Jamie Scallion

By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.

~ L.e. Sterling

In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.

~ L.e. Sterling

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

~ Ruta Sepetys

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

~ Elizabeth Wein

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

~ Paige Mckenzie

Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.

~ Cora Carmack

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

~ Alicia G. Ruggieri

Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be.

~ Cora Carmack

Myron, all six feet of super cuteness, comes forward. He smiles and I almost die, because he has one adorable dimple. Instead of getting embarrassed about his first name, he offers his hand and says, “Call me McDaniel.

~ Courtney Brandt

Denny and McDaniel go into the percussion room and grab a bizarre metal contraption. Denny lifts it over his head and I give him a strange look, to which he responds like I’m a five year old, “Carr-i-er.

~ Courtney Brandt

Denny gave me a strange look when I showed up in the band room, but I have always believed playing drums is no excuse not to look cute. Besides, if McDaniel shows up, I want to look my best. Oh, crap, I should be paying attention. “Did you hear anything I said?”I answer honestly, “No.”Denny runs a hand through his spiked hair and asks, “Do you really want to learn how to march?”“I have to learn to march if I want to be a part of the section, right?”“Right.”“Then, it doesn’t really matter if I want to do anything. It’s something I have to do.”Denny looks confused and partially like he’s completely regretting the decision to add me to his section, but proceeds to teach me drill for the better part of two hours. While we run through the steps, I look longingly over at my quints, which I have secretly decided to name Quincy.

~ Courtney Brandt

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face. --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL

~ Almney King

I hold her, and I know now why caring about another person is so damn scary. It's not that they won't care about you back, because that either happens or it doesn't. You live with it or you do everything you can to change it. The really scary thing is the moment you realize that for the rest of your life, you'll feel twice the pain, twice the joy, twice the fear. Twice as helpless to control it all, too.

~ Cora Carmack

And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.

~ Cora Carmack

We go through our whole lives thinking that we belong in one place and not in another. We think certain ideas and actions have to be relegated to the tiny little boxes we place them in. What if we just reacted instead? What if we take whatever the world gives us and instead of focusing on what it isn't, we enjoy what it is?

~ Cora Carmack

He looked as surprised as I was about the kiss and more than a little guilty. I ... he started. I'm sorry. That was wrong. You're my dead roommate's little sister, and I'm here to protect you, not to ... He trailed off, lost for words.When I finally regained control of my tongue, I said, It's depraved and you should be ashamed of yourself. I dropped the bottle into the snow and walked determinedly toward him. Do it again.

~ Karsten Knight

Sophomore Lucy Karate took a deep breath and concentrated her moss green eyes on the black squiggles in front of her. The sheet music on the page was exactly the same it had been for the past ten months. The difference wasn’t the music, it was the day. This was the day before auditions – her last opportunity to practice before her fate for the next school year was ultimately decided.

~ Courtney Brandt

They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai’s wife. She would be the Commonwealth’s empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.

~ Marissa Meyer

Is it always like that? I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

~ Nicola Yoon

I think that when every person in this room looks at Ze’ev and Scarlet, they don’t see a Lunar and an Earthen. We don’t see an agenda, or two people trying to make a statement. I think we see two people who were lucky enough to find each other in this vast universe, and they weren’t going to let any boundaries of distance or race or even physiological tampering get in the way of a happy life together.

~ Marissa Meyer

Of course, we know that the world sees this wedding as a historical event. The first recorded marriage union between a Lunar and an Earthen since the second era. And maybe that is important. Maybe the love and compassion these two people have for each other is symbolic of hope for the future. Maybe this wedding signifies the possibility that someday our two races will not only learn to tolerate each other, but to love and appreciate each other as well. Or, maybe…” Kai’s eyes glinted. … this relationship has absolutely nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with our shared human need to find someone who will care for us as much as we care for them. To find a partner who complements us and teaches us. Who makes us stronger. Who makes us want to be our best possible self.

~ Marissa Meyer

Love is worth everything. Everything.

~ Nicola Yoon

Talent guided by genius can achieve anything

~ Jamie Scallion

I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn’t scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.

~ Rose Fall

Colours started to seep into his black and white life

~ Jamie Scallion

This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim

~ Jamie Scallion

This is our life, there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

~ Jenny Han