Young Adult Quotes

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

He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled. "Mmmm, " he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

There is a constant conflict between What you're and What I think YOU ARE!

Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you’re not with them forever.

I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.

Then let me be your mercy, ” he said. “I’ll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.

Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, “Promise?” Well, that genie’s out of the bottle and there’s no stuffing her back in.

I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.

Hmmm. What you’re saying is that you’ve never been kissed?” He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

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.

It's not how you start, it's how you finish.

I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?

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.

I gotta go but... I miss you. That's all.""I miss you too", I say hugging my body tightly with the sleeves of his shirt.This... Is falling.

A shame. As promising as a sky full'a rainbows but as useful as a bag'a dirt.

Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?

You are more beautiful at first light then most girls are dressed and glamorous." Dana Christy

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.

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

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.

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

It’s funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you’ve always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Marcus turned his back to her. He feared that if he saw her face, it might weaken his resolve. Love was indeed a madness.

I am made of a thousand ghosts, only you can shoot me down.

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

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

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

I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.

Nick‘s eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in theTwilight Zone?

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.

Only where children gatheris there any real chance of fun.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!

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