Young Adult Quotes

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

"Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."

I don’t believe it! You’re still interested in the girl, despite the fact that she might be some kind of alien. Does this sickness of yours have any bounds?

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me.

All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.

This just didn’t happen to girls like me. This just didn’t happen to anyone.

I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?

I'll go over again and again until I've finally crossed to where he is

I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid.

All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.

Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief

A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen... one of them... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world.

Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?” “Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. “Because you’re an arrogant little shit.

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in the night air, the rotten night air, and I miss, I miss, I miss.

If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope forthe werepanthers in East Hampton after all.

So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?”“Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Oh, Alan Ryves, " she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny

I don't have deal breakers, " Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

Safe?” Her voice was small, timid and delicate. But beautiful. The one word chimed like little bells. Her first word spoken to me.

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After

I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.

I could feel myself peeking over at him. He was like a seatbelt for my soul.

If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling

For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.

He hoots as he passes. Another one whistles. I know this is stupid, inviting trouble. But it feels so good to be wanted, I can't help myself.

I was investing more and more of myself into an outcome I couldn’t predict and would very likely be disappointed by. But for me there was no other option.

...I would want to spend it with you. Even if we had thousands of nights, I would want to spend every single one of them with you.

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. "Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.

I must be really ugly or something, because nobody wants me. Not even God wants me. That's why he makes me stand out here in the cold. - excerpt from: freefalling

In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Love, JamieP.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die.

This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief

Nothing monumental happened, the earth didn’t shake, and lightning didn’t strike. There was just a simple moment of raw emotion, unbridled and exposed to the daylight.

His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons with that voice, whether he'll throw down judgement with that voice.

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

High school is such an incestuous little pool.

Everything feels yes.

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

My brain is such a traitorous beast.