Young Adult Quotes

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

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken in the flood.

I’ve lived for nothing and might soon die for less. My Life, Part One will be cancelled midway through the first season

Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Most people ignore what's right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want.

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

But, I still can't totally forgive Dave for blowing my world apart. DO YOU HEAR THAT, DAVE?!

We’ve been trapped in here, away from civilisation. We’re wasting our lives away, waiting for something. But nothing’s happened, and nothing is going to happen unless we help ourselves.

It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in

Sometimes you need to loose in order to win.

Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.

Our trust goes beyond the darkness.

Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.

One can't step into the river twice

I can’t decide if Burt and Crazel are made for each other or if their joint mentalism could cause a tsunami.”Tea – Book 2 “Having it

They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

Teachers influence more by what they are, what they do, what they represent and what they believe than by what they teach and preach.

Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.

It was while bent over, trying to breathe through the pain of bruised ribs, with the sensation of spit running down his cheek that Jason decided he was going to die.

The time is always now to declare your freedom!"..."The Authority says that Anarchy is the devil. But I say that a man who's both an anarchist and a patriot has been ordained by God himself!

There are ultimate truths you cannot hide from no matter how high you climb or how long you sit alone. Everything is on its way somewhere, even if that place feels like nowhere.

Ultimately, the universe doesn't care about us. Time doesn't care about us. That's why we have to care about each other.

At times it's like sadness has planted itself on her face, refusing to leave, an overwhelming sadness, and sometimes I see despair there, too.

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.” -Triven

All our good and bad memories—they were like our B-side diaries. They were like those songs on old dusty punk albums that no one listened to anymore.

I want to tell you that I love you, ” he said. “But I’m afraid you won’t remember it tomorrow.”“There’s no way I would forget that.

I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

He was drop-dead gorgeous and I, well I was just ... dead." (Tera Hightower, Dead Chick Walking)

Congratulations, " she said. "You win.

Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate’s clothes, but it didn’t make me Kate.

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...

I could’ve gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered. “My brother died because someone was jealous.

The embrace was long and tight, but more like a complex language then a simple prolonged act. She said nothing at all, but damn she said everything. And I finally got it.

Can you put your hands on my crot

Boys don’t gossip.”“Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect.

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn

But when you don't follow them up with any action, they're completely pointless. They're just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing.

And the scary thing is, I’m on a fast track to that same aviary. Unless I find my wings.

No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again

[Reggie] had a way of picking the bad ideas, which is why we should’ve just said no.(from GAMELAND Episode 1: Deep into the Game)

Keep your sword close and your friends closer.

How can stars shine facing your brightness if your beauty overwhelms them?

Patience is for dragons, ” Keegan muttered. “But dragons must learn it, just as humans must, ” Pharrgon replied.