Young Adult Quotes

You act like you're invincible, but I know deep down you want someone to hold your hand and buy you flowers and look you in the eye and tell you you're his soul mate. You want someone who will love every piece of you, even the pieces you can't love yourself.

~ Amy Reed

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

~ Jane Yolen

I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her.- Ryan

~ Elizabeth Scott

I bet you Cinderella didn't get along with Prince Charming's friends. Oh sure, the knights and barons probably put up with her on account that she was pretty and had such dainty feet and all, but you should know every duchess and contess in the kingdom hated her guts.

~ Janette Rallison

What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

~ Amy Reed

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

~ Dan Wells

Stacey muttered, But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven't . . . her voice trailed off and she looked away from Jason, hoping instead to find her words among the falling raindrops. Do you ever feel like you aren't the person you're supposed to be? That you could be a different person - and have a better life - if things had been just a little different?

~ J.m. Reep

As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.

~ Lauren Hammond

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

~ Tom Upton

...I do have to wonder what sort of childhood the Grimm brothers endured. They are not a merry bunch of storytellers, what with their children roasted by witches, maidens poisoned by old crones, and whatnot.

~ Libba Bray

For him, I had done this-for him I'd gladly wrecked myself and my immortal soul. And now I had an eternity to live with it.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?Sin: Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

~ Lauren Oliver

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

~ Shelly Crane

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

~ Jenna Black

But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!”Automatically I say, “Don’t say ‘frig.’ ”“Not one frigging word,” Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. “It all happened really fast,” he offers. “There was barely time to tell anybody—”“Was I talking to you?” Kitty snaps. “No, I don’t think so. I was talking to my sister.”Peter’s eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face.

~ Jenny Han

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?

~ Demi Lovato

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

~ Amy Mah

But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light.I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them.

~ Sarah Ockler

Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope.

~ Tom Upton

You know when you’re on a course that you know is the right one. You can’t explain it, you can’t define it, you don’t know how you got there or what all the obstacles will be, you just know the end result will be amazing and it will be worth it. That was the road I was on. Full speed ahead, no blinkers or turn signals, just cruise control.

~ Shelly Crane

I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

~ Bella Forrest

I don’t believe it! You’re still interested in the girl, despite the fact that she might be some kind of alien. Does this sickness of yours have any bounds?

~ Tom Upton

I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is. Which Zen guy said If you want to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water?

~ A.s. King

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

~ Wendy Wunder

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

~ Sarah J. Maas

All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.

~ Tom Upton

He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water.

~ Rachel Vincent

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

I'm serious, Mar, I don't know how to act around him now. I can't be nice, because he'll hate that. But I can't be mean just to be nice.You really need medication.I'm in a quandary. A Catch-22. I'm screwed.

~ Kristin Walker

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

~ Amalie Howard

She doesn’t even have shoes on” He was trying to reconcile something in his head while talking to Luke. “In all the time you spent in that shack, you forgot to pack her shoes?” Luke asked rhetorically, shaking his head in both wonder and disappointment. “Look, we’re in the boonies. I am sure shoes are optional, as are a full set of teeth.

~ Jenna-Lynne Duncan

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

~ Ally Condie

I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

~ Tom Upton

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

~ Jandy Nelson

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

~ Tom Upton

You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other.

~ Lani Wendt Young

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

~ John Green

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

~ Carrie Vaughn

I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

~ Niki Burnham