Young Adult Quotes

A man of peace is guided by peace, but when that peace is threatened, he has a choice to either kneel down and die silently as it falls into chaos, or fight for it and not look back. ~ Ryan Mark, Author

~ Ryan Mark

The lights disappear, The elevator shudders, Stalls, Quits. All in the same nanosecond. All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think, And Travis so close I can't breathe.

~ Elana Johnson

Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don't play by social norms as much as adults do.

~ Chuck Wendig

He runs his hands up my back and into my hair, pulling me closer. I lose myself in the feel of his body against mine and the way his soft lips coax mine to life. Almost without thinking, I wrap my arms around his warm waist.

~ Dannielle Wicks

It’s all inside of you—what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time.” He pulls away and helps me to my feet. “Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.

~ Patricia Vanasse

I have to get off this elevator.I can't ride with him, Can't look at him, Can't be this close to him. Can't, Can't, can't.

~ Elana Johnson

I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I’m trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.

~ Elana Johnson

Theo, Baleigh, and Lucas were good-looking people, and good-looking people hardly ever went unnoticed.

~ J.a. George

Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless. -Bliss Aston

~ Umi Allison

And darkness will rule.

~ Ashley Earley

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now.I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

~ Veronica Roth

Jealousy is when you want something that you can’t have, something that doesn't belong to you. Being protective is defending what’s yours.” He leaned in, his hand closing around my jaw as his nose skimmed up to mine. “And you better believe that I’ll be protecting what’s mine.

~ Shelly Crane

In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.

~ Laura Ruby

Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it’s all right here.” I placed a palm against my chest. “Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but beneath the layers of paint and ink, they’re still there, branded to our cores like initials carved in a tree.

~ Cole Gibsen

I picked up my camera and held it at arm's length and took a picture of myself not caring. I called it: Glory Doesn't Care.

~ A.s. King

Zane looks pensive, and then his lips twitch. “They say most girls end up marrying a guy just like their dad.”“Oh God … That’s so lame,” I say, spluttering as coffee dribbles down my chin. “I believe it’s a tried and tested theory,” he says, standing up and wiping my chin with the back of his hand. I jolt at his touch.“Now it’s a theory? I thought it was a saying? Next you’ll be telling me it’s a fact.” I flop back down on the couch.“Empirical evidence shows that sixty-eight percent of girls marry a guy who displays similar personality traits to her father ...” His voice trails off as I shake my head. “What?” he asks, his palms open and raised.“You really need to get out more. Where’d you glean that interesting nugget? The desperate men’s journal perhaps?

~ Siobhan Davis

If Amber kept up her act forever, it would only be a matter of time before the broken pieces of her real self were too small to ever be put back together. I didn’t know what happened to people once they were unfixable. I only hoped I never had to find out.

~ Cole Gibsen

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a start—and that was all that mattered.

~ Cole Gibsen

Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? It’s not who you are.”“That’s the point,” Amber said. “I’m not allowed to be who I really am.

~ Cole Gibsen

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

~ Cole Gibsen

He could no longer pretend not to have been brought to his knees by her blows, and he could no longer avoid the sentiments that his heart forced him to feel.

~ Mirella Muffarotto

All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that you don't want me? How could you want me like I want you?'He was quiet. He wanted everything she'd just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with 'I want you' in his ears. 'God,' she said. 'I told you I shouldn't talk. I didn't even answer your question.

~ Rainbow Rowell

We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

~ Kellie Thacker

We had given in to our vulnerability and cast down any pretenses that we were too strong to be weak.

~ Kellie Thacker

I wrapped up my food to take home. Let's go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I'm going to kill you. Just so you know.Claire grinned. You're welcome.~Gray

~ Patricia B. Tighe

For the first time, with complete clarity and absolute conviction, I know I love him entirely with all that I have, everything I am, and who I’m going to be. Of course, I’ve told him before, but not like this, not with the fierce swelling of love and fervent determination that I feel ebbing and flowing inside me, as vital as the air I breathe. Before—when I said it—it was borne out of immaturity, or necessity, or maybe just plain old lust. Now I radiate with the veracity of my love and this newfound truth that we really are meant to be.

~ Siobhan Davis

I understand that you want to have fun. That you like to distract yourself from life by going and doing these ridiculous things and laughing the whole time while you do them. I know you want to pretend that everything’s okay by trying your best to act normal, but I don’t. I want to sit in this house and mope around and be sad and revel in the fact that my life is complete shit from here on out.

~ John Corey Waley

You can't let your light die out. Yours is the only light on my dark path. Without it, I will be forever lost.

~ Kellie Thacker

I wrapped up my food to take home. 'Let's go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I'm going to kill you. Just so you know.'Claire grinned. 'You're welcome.' ~Gray

~ Patricia B. Tighe

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

~ Shelly Crane

I don't think relationships are just physicality. There are ways to show you care about someone, not just using your lips... Or any other body part.

~ Jenny Han

I keep hearing that being a geek is cool now, but I'm not sure the rest of the world has gotten the memo

~ Liz Czukas

I wrapped my arms around his neck and held on as he showed me what love felt like. As he showed me that a kiss could change your entire world.

~ Shelly Crane

Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

I’m not mean to everybody. I’m only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I’d be free right now. Probably even doing some real job,” she sneered.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

He had a semicircle tattoo with an indecent word on the back of his head, suggesting all people around him to leave him alone – in a much more impolite manner.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.

~ Alexandra Engellmann

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread

~ Suzanne Collins