Young Adult Quotes

I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.

I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip. “We don’t have five minutes.

A man without a footprint has no soul.

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN

Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.

Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are blinded by the ascent from sunshine into darkness.

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

I never realised how powerful desire could be. It consumes every part of you, enhancing your senses by a million.

I gotta say, I was really feeling the robe, but there's something about a girl in cartoon pajamas that does it for me.

He smirked and sat up "Simmer down, Jelly Bean.

Why aren’t you smiling?” Cameron asks. She picks up the Astropad and stops the video.“Because this is the beginning, not the end.

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

It's just...how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.

She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.

Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.

You should’ve told me, ” she repeats. “Because here’s a news flash: You might’ve wanted to shelter me, but there’s nowhere you can hide me that’ll keep me safe from what’s inside my head.

You didn’t tell Summer about it, did you?”“What?” Gage scoffs. “Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that’s what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.

Just in case you’re wondering, ” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.”“Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?”“I wasn’t, ” he shouts. “I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it.”Ethan scoffs. “Yeah, you did.”“I’m an idiot.”“Yeah, you are.”“Shut up.

Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Avery slides on his glasses and opens his eyes again. “Dammit!” he says again with more feeling. “Why does stuff like this keep happening?”“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, ” Rob says, smirking.

The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.

I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.

You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that." "That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.

I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.

I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.

Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.

It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

When you’re with a girl, it’s always best to act like you’re an old hand at everything—not to impress her, but just to make sure she feels safe.

Isn’t that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in my life.

The day the nation voted on whether I’d live or die, I woke up with a headache.

I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.

That was the beauty of Family, Dakota decided, you knew what it took to make them bleed. The magic was in choosing not too.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

I can tell you that the only thing in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything.

I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

Yeah, well. Don’t be that guy, Brady. Don’t be the guy who loves his horse too much.

What can I do?” his gaze on me was intense, like I was some sort of love guru or something. I almost laughed out loud at how unqualified I was for that position.

I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.

I’d rather be known as a freak than a science project.

You used to scream so well when you were scared, back when I lived under your bed.

I’m not fragile, ” I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn’t want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me.

The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.