Young Adult Quotes

In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.

She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.

Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter!

Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No, ” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.

I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live.

You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.

Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".

If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.

What you loved as a child, you will love forever

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else

...to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’. You’re one of the lucky ones. You’re the world to far more people than you think.

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who are beautiful inside and out…those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.

Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.

So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.

The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.

And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.

Please, Tommy. Please

Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.

They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.

Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.

All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.

She drank the bottle.

No, ” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.

It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.

When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?

Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.

All dreams have to come to an end.

Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.

Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.

Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.

Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness

If you're saving, you're succeeding

This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.

He was her moon. He balanced out her tides.

The weekends are too short for sleep!

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.