Young Adult Fiction Quotes
Evan Meekins
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
1165 Evan Meekins
Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.
3985 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.
4951 Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687 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.
1481 Steven J. Carroll
You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...
2045 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 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 C. Kennedy
One can learn from what is not said.
1343 Brian A. McBride
From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.
4548 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.
3858 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.
1527 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.
2047 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.
2641 Evan Meekins
We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.
1773 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.
3104 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.
3382 Evan Meekins
Love is not measured by acts or years, but by truth between two people.
1048 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.
3182 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.
3517 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.
1447 Evan Meekins
Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.
2907 Evan Meekins
We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.
4647 Evan Meekins
With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.
2675 Evan Meekins
Animals do not respect their master's brother, but they do respect their brothers as masters.
4250 Evan Meekins
a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
3841 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
2505 Evan Meekins
there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done
1248 Evan Meekins
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.
2292 Evan Meekins
They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits
1419 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.
2933 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.
2279 Evan Meekins
the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.
2764 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.
1105 Evan Meekins
It had become their creation, and they all would know it.
4501 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.
2663 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.
1867 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 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.
2056 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.
3827 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?
1886 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.
4553 Shannon A. Thompson
His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.
3521 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 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?
4899 Christy A. Campbell
The butterflies swirl again in Sera’s stomach. Perhaps they have brought along fireflies too, to light up her soul.
4819 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?
2621 P.C. Cast
Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite
1417 Richelle Mead
This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."
I frowned, "What's that?"
"Homework.
4160 Kailin Gow
There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian
1492 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.
2236 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...
4953 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.
1793 Cameo Renae
Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.
3071 Cameo Renae
He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.
3134 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 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.
1054 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
2948 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.
4064 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.
2606 Gwenn Wright
How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?
1854 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
2161 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.
4466 Jane Yolen
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
3548 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 Philip Cook
Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!
2124 Pet Torres
Love, he does not know this word, and worse, he does not know that feeling in his existence. ~Emily
1933 Pet Torres
You have damaged me!" He finally murmurs with his hoarse voice. "I gave up earning $ 40,000.00 tonight!" ~Larsson TIGER
2025 Pet Torres
I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person,"
~Emily
3470 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.
3292 E.J. Stevens
Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
1218 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.
2284 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.
4138 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.
2873 Aria J. Wolfe
When you stop being owned by your emotions you'll stop feeling vulnerable to people. ~ Remiel
1536 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.
1947 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!
4144 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.
2711 Susan Beth Pfeffer
Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
4378 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.
3650 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)
2787 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)
2343 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.
1803 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.
3555 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.
4441 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.
4693 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
3086 Ann Marie Frohoff
There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.
4839 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.
3765 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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