Young Adult Fiction Quotes

Evan Meekins

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

Evan Meekins

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

Steven J. Carroll

If you always try to measure yourself with
money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

Jess C. Scott

A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement. Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement

Jess C. Scott

Please, touch me, I pray.

Jess C. Scott

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Steven J. Carroll

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

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.

Ann Marie Frohoff

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

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.

Ashley Earley

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

C. Kennedy

One can learn from what is not said.

Brian A. McBride

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

Nathalie M. Leblanc

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

Brian A. McBride

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

Brian A. McBride

Light or Death!

Brian A. McBride

This was a Darkness born of fire.

Megan Duke

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there... lying in that bed in the first place.

Megan Duke

I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.

Sharon Sant

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

Evan Meekins

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

Evan Meekins

it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.

Evan Meekins

Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.

Evan Meekins

Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.

Evan Meekins

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.

Evan Meekins

Heralds don't sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Evan Meekins

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

Evan Meekins

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

Evan Meekins

We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.

Evan Meekins

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

Evan Meekins

Hate did not give way to heroism.

Evan Meekins

Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.

Evan Meekins

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

Evan Meekins

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

Evan Meekins

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Evan Meekins

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.

Evan Meekins

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Evan Meekins

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his fingertip than you have in your entire being, but because he is a man, and is thus entitled to be free.

Evan Meekins

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.

Evan Meekins

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

Evan Meekins

Milcas raced out his door, anxious to find the answer to this riddle and discover the source of hope for a Roegan in Fargranther; the propellant of an unheard of, forgotten, impossible, and by all accounts, damned idea.

Evan Meekins

It had become their creation, and they all would know it.

Evan Meekins

Do not forget about the butterflies.

Steven J. Carroll

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

Brian A. McBride

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.

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.

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.

Llàrjme

I tried to hate you, to forgive you, all just to forget you, but I'm only capable of loving you. You're tattooed onto my skin, and the more I try to erase you, the deeper you sink in.

Llàrjme

You two are bound to one another. You always have been … and you can't run away from what you are. No matter where you go, your feelings for her are going to follow you.

S. Elle Cameron

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

Evan Meekins

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.

Shannon A. Thompson

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

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.

Christy A. Campbell

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

Christy A. Campbell

The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.

Christy A. Campbell

How would Elijah ever understand a life that is dark more than light? Or a shadow of someone who follows her around, and when she least expects it, taps her on the back and asks, where are you going, Seraphina?

P.C. Cast

Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite

Richelle Mead

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.

Kailin Gow

There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian

Simone Elkeles

When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.

About Alex and Brittany.

Cameo Renae

A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance...

Lauren Hammond

The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to return. When I hear nothing but the sound of my own breathing I allow myself to drift back into a dreamless slumber.

Cameo Renae

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.

Cameo Renae

He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.

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.

Terri Clark

Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds.

I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea.

"He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'"

"That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin.

Jessica Verday

Too long, much too long.

Lisa L. Wiedmeier

If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn't have become the person I was always meant to be. ~ lw

Ashley Earley

I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time.

Melanie A. Gabbard

Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.

Gwenn Wright

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Kara Lee Hunter

There comes a time in a girl’s life where she finds her heart broken, what matters is not the boy who broke it but the boy who stitches it back together

Christy A. Campbell

She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.

Jane Yolen

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

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.

Philip Cook

Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!

Pet Torres

Love, he does not know this word, and worse, he does not know that feeling in his existence. ~Emily

Pet Torres

You have damaged me!" He finally murmurs with his hoarse voice. "I gave up earning $ 40,000.00 tonight!" ~Larsson TIGER

Pet Torres

I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person,"
~Emily

Laura Anderson Kurk

I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we’re going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don’t care who you are.

Sipporah Joseph

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

E.J. Stevens

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

Faith Reese Martin

Every great day has a story and a song!

Larry Itejere

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

Larry Itejere

Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.

Karen Gammons

Dorian sat quietly for a moment and then said, “We all straddle the abyss, Penny. If you never look down, how will you ever know who you are or what you will become? Your dad could never be ashamed of you, because falling in that abyss is part of the process of growing up.

Aria J. Wolfe

When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel

Serena Schreiber

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

John T. Montgomery

You have always known they exist. Everyone feels their presence. Few know the truth. The world of Real Immortals is about to be revealed!

S.G. Holster

I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Arby Robbins

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

A.B. Whelan

I don’t know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I’m not one of them,” I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)
“You are. You just don’t know yet.” (Victor)

Kim Cormack

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The Children of Ankh series)

Laura Anderson Kurk

My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.

Laura Anderson Kurk

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Megan Duke

We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.

E.J. Squires

Mai whispers, “Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe.”
“You of all people,” Nicholas says, “should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Ann Marie Frohoff

There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.

Melina Marchetta

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

Dixie Waters

When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.

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