Young Adult Quotes

I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live.

~ Sara B. Larson

She smiled the most extraordinary smile and Egg knew his life would never be the same again.

~ Jamie Scallion

I want to be with YOU!Bex to Tea

~ Jamie Scallion

Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.

~ Humairaa Anseline

My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth!

~ James Hauenstein

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

~ Sarah Dessen

If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.

~ Steve Hockensmith

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

~ Francesca Zappia

The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment I’m awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I can’t ignore who I am. My mother says the water is dangerous, that beyond the innocent whitecaps they’re waiting, but I never hear her over the call of the sea.

~ Tabi Card

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

~ Tabi Card

She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.

~ Lois Duncan

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

~ Neal Shusterman

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

~ Neal Shusterman

So? Mac says.I shrug.Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?It was nice, I guess.You guess? Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. Tough crowd.Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.

~ Ashley Mansour

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

~ Neal Shusterman

Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

When you are a Protector, in darkness you see the world through different eyes and the line between Beast and Savior is so thin, you find yourself wondering if it was ever there to begin with.The beat of a heart makes your soul ache, instincts so raw fighting them seems futile and until you are marked, the world holds its breath as within you lies the power to destroy them all.

~ Kathryn Robson

...to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’. You’re one of the lucky ones. You’re the world to far more people than you think.

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who are beautiful inside and out…those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

~ Daniele Lanzarotta

Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.

~ Mara Dabrishus

I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless.

~ Aspen Matis

No matter what, my chest always tightens up before a race. A rush of adrenaline spikes all the way down my spine, and it's like I'm right there. Right on top of Kali, squeezed in that metal stall, looking out at the dirt with my heart in my throat. The starter opens the gates, and the bell rings.

~ Mara Dabrishus

Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.

~ Mara Dabrishus

When the striped pole slips by I slide low in the saddle and give Kali room to go. One moment she's bottled up, and the next she's a stream of copper, her chestnut mane smacking me hard in the face while her strides lengthen and everything becomes a droning rumble of hooves and wind.

~ Mara Dabrishus

Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.

~ Mara Dabrishus

I'm bouncing up and down next to Beck, and his arm is around my waist because it's second nature to reach out and grab something during a race. To grab it and hold on, or shake it, or just feel that it's there and you can steady yourself against it to bring yourself back to earth when the race is done.

~ Mara Dabrishus

The harsh dimness that follows loss isn’t static, but charged with the energy of immanent change. Hurt, I was left with a choice: wallow and stay in the dark, or seek light and fight to reach it. These two paths emerged. I had this choice to make. Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation. I saw that this mountain valley, haunted by senseless murders, darker, had absorbed unthinkable violence and turned it into mesmerizing light. My rape became my catalyst. Rape gave me cause to flee the muteness – forced me into making a bold and forceful change. I chose to fight to find a way to leave to seek my own strength and beauty. I was searching to find the way to make light.

~ Aspen Matis

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

~ Alanda Kariza

With his height, Caleb looked over their heads toward his cousin and…his throat tightened. There in a yellow dress that emphasized the elegant line of her shoulders and a new hair cut that accentuated the shape of her face stood the most exquisite girl to have ever graced the Dodge Cove elite with her presence.

~ Kate Evangelista

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets after and better at chasing you ...

~ Tiffany Fitzhenry

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

~ Jenny Lynne

The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.

~ Damian Wampler

Please, Tommy. Please

~ James Dashner

Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.

~ Damian Wampler

They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.

~ Damian Wampler

Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.

~ Damian Wampler

In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.

~ Damian Wampler

All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.

~ Damian Wampler

She drank the bottle.

~ Damian Wampler

No,” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.

~ Damian Wampler