Young adult Quotes

“Guard your mortal heart.”

— Holly Black

“P-p-p-please, don’t cast me out”

— Rebekkah Ford

“Boat. Toby. 1pm. Shit!”

— C.J. Duggan

“Love indulged the masochist.”

— Jaime Reed

“A 'T' for Tess, a 'T' for Toby.”

— C.J. Duggan

“Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,”

— Tehereh Mafi

“Aren't we forever?”

— Cassandra Clare

“Abuse doesn't define you.”

— C. Kennedy

“Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no.”

— Rick Yancey

“We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.”

— Evan Meekins

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

— Laura Goode

“Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom”

— Holly Black

“Reputations seldom deliver on promises of happiness.”

— Huston Piner

“If they love you for anything, it will be for your beauty.”

— Melissa Bashardoust

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

— Bernard Branson

“I was just existing, but he made me want to live.”

— Shelly Crane

“Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.” “To be fair, you still look pretty bad.”

— John Green

“What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?”

— Amy Reed

“Never mess with the Fez.” —Heather Peaceout, Black Fez, Second Order”

— Richard Due

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful…

— Simone Elkeles

“Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney”

— Lauren Barnholdt

“The way you’re talking…” Tears were shining in Kian’s eyes. “It sounds like you don’t think you’re coming back.”

— Kailin Gow

“Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the…

— Milly Silver

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

— Wendy Wunder

“She'd survived the outside. She'd survived the Aether and cannibals and wolves. She knew how to love now, and how to let…

— Veronica Rossi

I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too…

— Amy King

“Isolation was the final blow. Scattering their unity like a body chopped into seven. Life cannot prevail in each piece; it can…

— S.W. Lothian

“Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He…

— Anonymous

“But the only thing I could feel were those firm arms holding me, clutching me securely. And all I could hear was…

— Katherine Quinn

“Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck…

— Jenna-Lynne Duncan

“Seconds ebb and wane. She’s not afraid of her voice anymore, but she’s not entirely sure she trusts it. She’s seen the…

— Laura Kreitzer

“It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the…

— Elana K. Arnold

“Virginia screamed, grabbing for the door handle and nearly throwing herself from the moving car. James swerved to the side of the…

— Brandi Salazar

“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are…

— Piper Kerman

When I was growing up, if there was a Young Adult section of my town's library, I missed it. I wandered right…

— Erin Morgenstern

“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it…

— Shannon A. Thompson

“Think of the cafeteria as a road map to where you belong.” Danielle pointed to the beautiful people in one corner. “Princesses…

— Angela Parkhurst

“I thought it was just him,” she says, ignoring him. “But then I found out I had the same effect, which means…

— Laura Kreitzer

“I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding…

— philip pullman

“So we have twenty-four hours to keep out of trouble,’ he says to me. I slide a glance in his direction. Judging…

— Sarah Alderson