Ya Quotes
Kyra Dune
I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.
2608 Amanda Grace
I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.
3861 Daniel Amory
One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
2200 Julie Kagawa
Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.
3836 Priya Ardis
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.
3568 Priya Ardis
Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.
4568 Kea Alwang
So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.
4043 Daniel Amory
I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.
2851 Priya Ardis
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.
3296 Terri Clark
I didn't want to go to hell, but even the idea of reclaining my halo scared me because it would mean leaving Aly.
2521 Elizabeth Englewood
Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.
2966 John Scalzi
In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).
2372 Christy A. Campbell
He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.
2109 Brittany Hawes
...Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
2803 Laura Kreitzer
I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone - a gift from Joseph - as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there’s an app for that.
2037 Melissa Kuch
Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.
2144 Joe Konrath
There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.
4536 Stacey T. Hunt
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
3854 R. Rose
I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
3616 Kyra Dune
A conscience can be a dangerous thing
3717 Kyra Dune
Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.
3308 John Green
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
4814 Emlyn Chand
They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head.
4091 Llàrjme
Marika could feel herself cocking the trigger of a loaded gun and pointing it at herself, because the truth could be too shocking a revelation, something that would shake their lives to the core... but lies were just a dead-end alleyway that offered no way out.
4214 Llàrjme
Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.
4263 J.D. Means
Everything is inspiration. If you look at the world as the incredible place it is, then each moment is a feast.
2306 Katie McGarry
Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.
2134 Janet Edwards
With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.
2412 Laura Anderson Kurk
Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
1674 Amanda Grace
It's not fair. It's not fair that he lets his rage take over, that he lets it rule him. I don't know why he has to let it rule him. I don't know why he has to be two people.
I don't know why he gets to be two people, and I only get to be me, the one who is here to take what he has to give, and who is here to pick pu the pieces afterward.
4764 Melina Marchetta
This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying.
"Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen."
"Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets."
Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.
2195 Michelle Hodkin
Have you made any other friends since we've been here?"
I gave him the death stare. "Yes, actually."
"Who? I want a name."
"Jamie Roth."
"The Ebola kid? I heard he's a little unstable."
"That was one incident.
4744 Julia Hoban
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.
1453 Shannon Delany
You know, considering your IQ, you're really socially retarded sometimes.
3400 Laura Kreitzer
The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
2562 Cyndi Goodgame
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
3985 Betsy Cornwell
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age.
3053 Colleen Houck
As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren
4635 Molly Bryant
I live my life until I start the cycle of my dreams,then I leave and search for you until I die.When I come back,I live to remember,I live to find you
4887 Cyndi Tefft
And your green eyes are the color of the hills- the color of my home.' His voice dropped to a whisper. 'Aye, there's something about you, Lindsey Waters.
2552 Jodi Meadows
Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.
2109 Heather Burch
Raven scowled through his too-long bangs. “The Angel Song doesn’t hurt humans. It only affects the evil within.”
“Then you should be writhing on the ground with the hounds,” Mace mumbled.
4710 Lauren Hammond
Hello, dinner. It’s me, I’m starving. And I know where you live.
1959 Lynn Mitchell
You know the kind of smile I’m talkin’ about. That flirty, cute, bite-your-bottom lip ‘cause his smile is so stinkin’ perfect - that kind of smile.
1393 Wendy Higgins
I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.
1486 Lynn Mitchell
Holy Bon Jovi, the queen of darkness actually had a soul.
2601 Cyndi Tefft
It washed all over me and through me, into the floor and then it was gone. I never cried for my Da again after that, and God's presence has been with me ever since.” - Adien MacRae, BETWEEN
3747 Sara Daniell
GET IN" he says, getting in on the driver side. I get in with no questions. Okay. This is a bad movie waiting to happen-I'm getting in a car with a guy I just met today who is keeping secrets from me. What the hell is wrong with me? I'm too scared to speak or ask or run away, though. So I just get in and put on my seat belt. I am so stupid.
4433 Ayul Hendricks-Levy
But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to.
4006 Rusty Fischer
Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.
2306 Cyndi Goodgame
Whatever hypnotizing charms I may have over boys, did not in fact work on three hundred pound girl elves. Not that I would ever try it again.
4609 Shawn Kirsten Maravel
I was the silent and ever present figure in your life...but you.” I kissed the back of her hand softly and closed my eyes. "You've always been the meaning of mine.
1940 Alex E. Carey
When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.
4202 Alex E. Carey
Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.
4035 Alex E. Carey
Love when you can, and fight when you must, but stand together and never give up, not to the enemy, and not on each other.
3596 Aimee Friedman
...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.
3951 Ophelia London
The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.
1616 Ophelia London
Miles jogged off, leaving her alone in the large and quiet room. Aimee stood still, waiting for her mind and heart to go back to normal, return to how she felt a week ago before seeing Miles again.
But they didn’t. Or wouldn’t. She put both hands over her pounding heart, exhaled, and sank into a chair. Nut-burgers. Now what?
3092 Melina Marchetta
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
1907 Huntley Fitzpatrick
I scoop a clattering cascade of green apple Jelly Bellys into the white paper bag and remember when we were seven. I got stung by a jellyfish. Tim cried because his mother, and mine, wouldn’t let him pee on my leg, which he’d heard was an antidote to the sting.
3001 Rachel Cohn
What's a slut?" I ask him.
"A girl who puts out too easily."
"Puts out what?" I imagine Greer putting out dinner and don't understand what Iwan wouldn't like about that.
"Puts out, you know..." His face, already beet red from our run, turns a darker scarlet. "Sex."
I wonder where Greer puts the sex out.
3628 Laura Kreitzer
It’s complicated,” I said in defense, hands going up to show surrender.
“Talk slowly,” Jenna retorted derisively.
“Okay, I deserved that,” I admitted.
3416 Stacey Jay
But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone else if wrong, to find my thoughts rational and reasonable when almost the entire world finds them damaged and flawed.
4280 Stephanie Perkins
I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic.
4433 Gia Russell
To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
4698 S.R. Crawford
Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.
3304 S.R. Crawford
Just because we’re adults doesn’t mean we should grow up! The world’s a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!
4950 S.R. Crawford
There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.
2610 S.R. Crawford
Believe in gold and thou shalt never settle for silver.
2858 S.R. Crawford
Even when or if I become one of you, I vow to appreciate life; to appreciate my strength because unlike you, it seems, I’ve worked to earn mine
1340 S.R. Crawford
Truth means facing denial and saying I know who I am, I know who I need to be and I’m not afraid to become that person no matter what...Never be without fear; but Letti, never be without fight.
1482 S.R. Crawford
You are a blue rose, Letti. It’s almost impossible that you exist amongst the other roses but you do. You bring wonder to those who are lucky enough to find you.
4495 S.R. Crawford
Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the day, you’re the only person you can trust.
1714 S.R. Crawford
The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.
4516 Christy A. Campbell
There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when it first falls, or maybe it’s just the way he always smells and there is no way to define it.
3596 Emlyn Chand
Note to self: don’t throw things at girls.
3056 Laura Miller
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
4064 Lucy Ivison
I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired."
The socially accepted excuse for being mental.
2645 Ali Harper
Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.
3999 Martina Boone
Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.
1519 S.R. Crawford
What do you want?"
To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…
4139 Erin Bow
It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
4644 Holly Black
He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls.
4469 Laura Anderson Kurk
Her problem is with pretty,” Tennyson said. "She thinks I’ll need all these dresses in college. Like I would ever in a billion years pledge a sorority. I’ll pack a few of these to be ironic, though. I can wear them to, like, truck stops at night with mascara running down my cheeks and stuff.
4464 David Levithan
Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in the tiniest of gestures, the most delicate sensations.
4633 Adi Alsaid
No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.
3450 E.J. Stevens
Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
1218 Richard Due
Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” - Lily Winter
2630 Meg Xuemei X
None of us could choose our birth, but we could still chose our family, and only those who love you are your true family.
4696 Laura Kreitzer
How ya doing?” Gabby’s face came into view, and she grinned down at me. She’d stopped doing her healing thing, and the pain rushed in.
“I’m just peachy,” I quipped, throat scratchy. “Only hurts when I breathe or blink or exist, if I’m being honest.
4504 Richard Due
Odd names: Winter, Autumn - they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” - Dubb
1234 Richard Due
Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.
3971 Laura Kreitzer
Well, the only reason we’re friends is because you can rock a tweed suit,” she informed, tone mock serious. “So if you want to keep me around, I expect more tweed.
4695 Laura Kreitzer
Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed.
Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he returned, his eyebrows were furrowed in confusion. “The door is shut?
2479 Laura Kreitzer
Awe! Leaving so soon?” Gabby said sweetly, holding the door open. “I was just about to pull out the gun for you to play single-player Russian Roulette.
1117 Brian Rathbone
Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.
2233 Cindy Pon
There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.
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