Young Adult Fiction Quotes

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!

I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.

You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.

Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.

Angelica rolled the wedding band between her finger and thumb. "It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.

I work in a restaurant in an airport in Taiwan. I am eighteen years old and I don’t like my job because everyone gets on planes and leaves. And I want to leave too.

I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.

For a moment, I’m captivated. He’s seducing me with his eyes. A nervous flutter swims through my stomach. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Pounding. Constricting. I swallow hard.

When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

Too long, much too long.

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

Writing is the new reading

I have to protect you, ” he says softly.

Sadly, like many times in life, including winning the lottery, we don’t always get what we wish for.

Clearly, she hadn’t heard of the two words ‘social’ and ‘life’.

With every step, I cursed the person who had ever invented the saying: “Speak of the devil”. Clearly, they had no sympathy for me!

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.

His tricks had raised the temperature of the room considerably, although I was pretty sure his presence alone had that effect.

Well, ' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

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.

That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.

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.

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

Remember, Shaw, that the power of the dagger lies not only in the visual, but also the symbolic.

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.

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

But you've slipped under my skin, invaded my blood and seized my heart

The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.

Laughter comes from living." I shrug, try to sound indifferent. "I've never really been alive before.

How long has it been since I entered this blackness? Has it been days, months, or years? I’m stuck here with my mind, my thoughts, my memories, and my nightmares.

Cath exhaled. Then inhaled. Her chest was so tight, it hurt both ways. Levi shouldn't get to make her feel this way - he shouldn't even have access to her chest.

His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.

Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.

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

Nico looked so devilishly handsome under the spilling glow of the moon.

If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.

Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.

...this two-way hatred. I don’t understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?""I'd rather swim in battery acid.

The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall