Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in… — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
“He leaned in close and spoke low. "Wow, I don't know what the hell I did to put that look on your… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“Do the thing you love to do. Hank Williams died at the ripe old age of twentynine. Stevie Ray Vaughan at thirty-five.… — Jill S. Alexander Copy Share Image
“I'm not myself,' she offered, guilty. She softened around Tik Tok, and when she did she was, for those rare moments, girlish.… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and… — Jonathan Yanez Copy Share Image
“What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted,… — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
“All those nights we climbed the stars and rearranged the planets with our songs, we were complete and invincible when we stood… — A.G. Howard Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
“A soft mist blew around them. Raindrops glistened in his hair, shimmering under the pale glow of the light post. His eyes… — Airicka Phoenix Copy Share Image
“It wouldn't be fair to Chevy, and it wouldn't be fair to me. The love I had for him was consuming and… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Time’s voice is everything you can physically experience. It is a favourite smell, a first taste from childhood, a vision shared with… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
“I’ve never been with a boy who hasn’t seen me naked. It’s always the squeaky futon, bear-it-all, turn-off-the-lights quickstep. Don’t chalk it… — Taylor Rhodes Copy Share Image
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things… — Erica Sehyun Song Copy Share Image
“It kills me. The way he trusted. LIke the way we trusted before they came and blue the whole goddamned world apart.… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while… — Wendy Mogel Copy Share Image
“His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I’m nice to you,” he said. “Why, why, why. But you don’t ask me stuff that matters. Who… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
“After all, she never promised me anything, never gave me any reason to think I was more than what I was to… — Jefin S Jeevan Copy Share Image
“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… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
“Nothing monumental happened, the earth didn’t shake, and lightning didn’t strike. There was just a simple moment of raw emotion, unbridled and… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a… — Carl Sutton Copy Share Image
“Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this… — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Violet moves, a readjustment, and I expect her to pull away. But instead, she leans further into me, her head on my… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
“So if I was to choose? Then I choose complicated,” I said, with a nod of finality. I met his eyes again… — C.J. Duggan Copy Share Image
“He just wasn’t into flaunting his awesomeness, but sometimes a person’s awesomeness simply flaunts itself, even when you politely ask it not… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
“You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters." “Beautiful and full of monsters?"… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I nodded. I was ready. In fact I was so ready that if he didn’t do something soon, if he didn’t touch… — Sarah Alderson Copy Share Image
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt… — Emily Tomko Copy Share Image
“You can wait as long as you like, pretty one, it won't make any difference. He will never see you as anything… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
“There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, and it struck her… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up." ~Happy… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then… — Tricia Levenseller Copy Share Image
