Young Adult Quotes

I don’t want a challenge with a woman.” Adrian was getting bothered by his friend’s persistence. “I want one who’s ready and willing. You see how pristine that chick looked? We’re talking completely uncharted territory. She’s probably never had a tongue in her mouth, much less a cock. I ain’t got time for training.

~ Cherie Summers

It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!

~ Damian Wampler

The fuel for a great fire is all round them, ready to consume the evil of Plexus; we just have to wait for the spark.

~ Damian Wampler

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

~ Carla Trueheart

When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?

~ Shelly Crane

I’ve brought you some things from home,’ I said, gesturing at the bag on the floor. ‘Some clothes and books – things like that.’‘Books – great! That’ll make things easier. You know I can’t read worth a damn right now!’‘There’s also some music. Schubert’s fifth, Mendelssohn’s third, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s fourth—’‘I would have preferred his sixth.’‘You’re not well enough for his sixth'.

~ Gavin Extence

Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.

~ Shelly Crane

All dreams have to come to an end.

~ Timothée De Fombelle

He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. “If you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it.”Amusement showed in his hazel eyes. “Think you can stop me?

~ Chris Cannon

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

~ Katie Neipris

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.

~ David Iserson

You don't know the art of eating ice cream. I mumbled.And what's that? He said sarcastically.That is, to enjoy every single spoonful, lick it thrice to completely clean it off, then take another spoonful, and so on. You know what's sweet time? That is called sweet time. Next time, do it and enjoy the heavenly taste of it. It will increase its deliciousness by tenfold. I grinned at him.

~ Zainab T. Khan

Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.

~ Maranda Evans

There are things you do when you are a teenager, or a dancer, or just a girl, I guess. You cut your food up in special ways, or you cut yourself, or paper dolls. You pretend that there is an invisible audience watching you all the time, and you do things to impress them or pretend that they didn't see what you just did because their live video feed was interrupted somehow. You steal things or tell lies or speak to strangers in a Russian accent. You have sex with someone you love, or with someone who gets you really drunk. You lie to your parents, your boyfriend, yourself, your therapist. You cheat on your homework or do other people's homework for money. You get up, you take class, you rehearse, you perform, you go to bed. How do you decided which of these things are truly crazy and which are just being alive?

~ Meg Howrey

Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.

~ Logan Keys

Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness

~ Logan Keys

She’d always pictured her future self as a lone wolf traveling around the world, ensnaring romantic conquests and achieving her wildest and most ambitious goals. She didn’t think that at nineteen she would be so dependent on other people; she pictured herself as an autonomous and untouchable force that occasionally flitted back home to show off her new feathers before flying away to her life that was much more exciting than theirs.

~ Katie Neipris

If you're saving, you're succeeding

~ Steve Burkholder

This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

~ Andrea Cremer

He was her moon. He balanced out her tides.

~ Katie Neipris

You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise

~ Kirsty Moseley

The weekends are too short for sleep!

~ Bryant A. Loney

Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?

~ Kirsty Moseley

I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool.

~ Colleen Hoover

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

~ Bryant A. Loney

My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

~ Gwenda Bond

Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.

~ Sarah Ockler

I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.

~ Ashley Earley

Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us feel both envious of them and sad for ourselves, intentional or not. They had activities outside of school and followers online—people of social necessity who sat at home on Friday nights and 'liked' popular posts in hopes that they, too, might one day be as attractive and personable.

~ Bryant A. Loney

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

~ Avi

In the Empire, the Scholars are not allowed to read and, like so many bullies and power-seekers who hide behind ideologies to justify the terrible things they do, their oppressors wear masks. 'An Ember in the Ashes' suggests that such masks (literal or figurative) don’t work. Not forever, anyway. Masks only cover faces. It’s actions that show who we are.

~ Chelsey Philpot

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

~ Jason Schmidt

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

~ Lauren Destefano

I 'd never seen him cry, I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

~ Lauren Destefano

You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.

~ Sarah Dessen

Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Acknowledging that my biological imperative may not include the drive to procreate, that I just might be attracted to XX chromosomes instead of XY? That's so stupid-minor in comparison to the fact that I might actually be in love for the first time in my life. It's with a girl...so what? Lesbian, bisexual, whatever! Thus isn't about categorisation or chromosomes. This is about how I feel about another person.

~ Kristen Zimmer

How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

~ Micalea Smeltzer

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.

~ Almney King

I couldn’t compete with Honesty, With her dark blonde hair streaked with auburn, With her captivating blue eyes, With her legs that stretched into forever. She had the brains, The body, The perfect resume for girlfriend. And me? I had the perfect resume for Best friend. All the boys said so.

~ Elana Johnson