Young Adult Fiction Quotes

Young Adult Fiction Quote of the day

District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.

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

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

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

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes.

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Stay strong. Don't be bullied by anyone.

She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.

I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or cut off or ignore! I AM CURRENCY! - Nevel Walker

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.

Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time.

What I know about you, Henry, ” he said. “Is that you, as big as you are, know how to walk gently on this earth.

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t forget who you are

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

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.

Wait, ” Quinn said. “There’s one more thing.” I turned around and raised an eyebrow. His eyes were wary and he lacked his usual confidence.“Go to the Winter Dance with me.

But Quinn held the fuzzy handcuffs in his hands, looking them over closely, and he smiled. “Oh, hey, did you want to keep these for when your invisible boyfriend returns from his fake vacation?

To be loved, is to be immortal.

It's the kind of storm that only happens on the highveld, the thunder loud and rapid. Zanele doesn't speak. I need her to. Maybe she is counting the people who have died since we first met.

There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.

I want to tell you that I love you, ” he said. “But I’m afraid you won’t remember it tomorrow.”“There’s no way I would forget that.

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

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

I feel ill, " [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

Yes, ” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.

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...

There is no law stronger than that ofmagic. - Kian

All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.