Young Adult Quotes

Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.

~ Huston Piner

I can see how your mother would have a point. Having a debate with a politically minded woman can be intriguing and even entertaining but to share a house with her and have her always campaigning and protesting at the dinner table,” he slanted his gaze down toward me. “That could be very tiring indeed.

~ Gwenn Wright

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me—him—away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning the loss of a dream. I'm sorry. 'You're not alone, I just wanted you to know that. And someday, when I have my powers back and am free, I'm going to do some serious damage to the people who've hurt you.

~ Kimberly Kinrade

Once you've ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel's kinda restricting.

~ Daria Snadowsky

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked like, before the fire.' His request surprised me, but I did as he asked. With eyes closed, I projected the exact details of the painting I had poured my soul into. Just as I had experienced his love of surfing in a visceral way, he shared not just the visual beauty of my work, but the love and passion with which I had dedicated myself to it. 'Thank you. Now, it will never truly be gone.' I choked back a sob and went to Mr. K's office.

~ Kimberly Kinrade

You just called me a bitch!But that's not a bad thing. See what I meant was you're an unapologetic hard ass!

~ Z.l. Arkadie

Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.

~ Abbi Glines

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

~ Abbi Glines

If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people's pity.

~ C.j. Duggan

Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic.Curses bloomed.Girls bit into sharp apples instead of birthday cake, chocked on the ruby-and-white slivers, and collapsed into enchanted sleep. Unconscious beneath cobweb canopies, frozen in coffins of glass, they waited for their princes to come. Or they tricked ogres, traded their voices for love, danced until their glass slippers cracked.A prince would awaken, roused by the promise of true love, and find he had a witch to destroy. A heart to steal. To tear from the rib cage, where it was cushioned by bloody velvet, and deliver it to the queen who demanded the princess's death. Girls became victims and heroines.Boys became lovers and murderers.And sometimes... they became both.

~ Sarah Cross

I may have been buzzed last night, but I remember everything. I can't promise you that I won't want to drive you home, or kiss you like crazy again. Because I will. I do.

~ C.j. Duggan

That’s the thing. I’ve never met anyone like you, Tess. You think you’re a no one? You’re so wrong. So wrong. You stand in a room with all the Angelas, even the Ellies. None of them can compare to you. I remember when you started working at the Onslow, I couldn’t keep my eyes off you. You were so terrified. You weren’t full of yourself like other girls. Every time you walked into the bar, you were like a breath of fresh air. Even when Angela was a bitch to you, you rose above it. You made me see the difference in people. You’re not a nobody, Tess, you’re a somebody.

~ C.j. Duggan

So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again in a silent challenge.“I choose you.

~ C.j. Duggan

He looked at me now.Remember I said, 'what if I didn't want to fix your bike?'I remembered. Yes...I didn't want to fix it, because I liked driving you places.

~ C.j. Duggan

Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.”“To be fair, you still look pretty bad.

~ John Green

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss

~ Kami Garcia

What do you know? This is where it all began,” he said.“Began?”“This is exactly where I was when I wanted to kiss you,” he whispered, his lips brushing along my neck causing me to melt under his touch. “So bad.”“Except this time there’s no drunk netballer squawking at us,” I teased.“I wouldn’t care if the seven horseman of the Apocalypse charged through the garden right now, nothing’s gonna stop me from doing this.” He leaned down and captured my lips with tenderness, a completely perfect kiss, like it always was.

~ C.j. Duggan

A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.

~ C.j. Duggan

You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you,” he said.

~ John Green

Tess, there isn't a drunken, screaming netballer in the world that would have made me not want to ... continue.

~ C.j. Duggan

Oliver, we’ve got something to tell you,” Dad says, dumping a cardboard box full of garden waste into a toad green mangler. Unlike the doctor, when Dad says we, he means we because Mum is omnipotent. “Who’s dead?” I ask, shot-putting a bottle of Richebourg. “No one’s dead.” “You’re getting a divorce?” “Oliver.” “Mum’s preggers?” “No, we—” “I’m adopted.” “Oliver! Please, shit up!

~ Joe Dunthorne

What would angel lips taste like? Sunshine? Marshmallows? Or something altogether different? Maybe buttered-popcorn jelly beans.

~ Lisa M. Basso

There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.

~ Michael Cart

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a “tip of my hat” to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

~ Christopher Gerard

Why are you in my room?”“Because I can be.”“You shouldn’t be.”“Save it, Rochester. You broke my nose.”“Does it hurt?”He lifted a hand toward his face and dropped it. “You could say that.”“Good.”He nudged a tray on the floor with his boot. It had oatmeal, toast, and orange juice on it. “Hungry?”Honor’s stomach growled. “No.”Ryder’s lips turned up in a fleeting sadistic smile. He kicked the tray across the room. It hit the wall and overturned. “Good.

~ Lindy Zart

JOH! Thank God I found you.”“I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

~ Maureen A. Miller

I came from across the ocean and through the wilderness and landed here and found you hiding behind a tapestry. My fate was sealed at the sight of your stockinged feet.~Viktor von Strassenberg

~ Gwenn Wright

You've never been to another planet, have you Aimee?No, but I've been to Disney World.

~ Maureen A. Miller

When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you like them a lot.

~ Phillip Gwynne

Do you want some words of advice, Tess?”I glanced at Adam’s profile as he sipped.“Don’t give your heart away too easily.” He turned to me. “Make him earn it.

~ C.j. Duggan

He slid over to me and grabbed me closer to him. My smile fell from my face with the unexpectedness of it. His hands cupped my face, his lips hovering above mine.“You seriously want to know, Tess?”He closed the space and claimed my mouth with an urgent, hot, delving kiss.He smiled. “You are sexy, in your own goofball way, you’re sweet and beautiful and smart and funny and, although you kiss to the point where I feel like I want to go back for seconds, you’re my best friend, and that’s why I don’t want to tap that.

~ C.j. Duggan

Just be careful, hon,” Rosanna said.“Oh, are the plates hot?” I flinched back just before my hands made contact.Rosanna laughed. “No, but hot boys can burn you just as easily.

~ C.j. Duggan

When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.

~ C.j. Duggan

Well, if they set you in the kissing booth, let me know, I am always willing to donate for a worthy cause.

~ C.j. Duggan

Tess, will you marry me? Toby laughed.

~ C.j. Duggan

She is something else.

~ C.j. Duggan

Boat.Toby.1pm.Shit!

~ C.j. Duggan

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

~ Elizabeth Scott

This is my first real memory of James. In every memory before that, he’s just a flash of color, a warm body with a blurred face, a comforting voice begging me not to die. When he planted himself between our father and me that day, an eight-year-old with small fists clenched at his sides, I think I fell in love with my brother.

~ Kate Avelynn