“Instead of a criminal or a drug addict, I was looking at a boy—just a boy.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Trust me,’ he says with a touch of impatience. ‘Stop asking me to do that,’ I say, equally as impatiently.” — Sarah Alderson Copy Share Image
I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
“She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Eleanor Park - Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay! — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
“I didn’t spend my whole summer training with Anwar and him on a deserted island in the Baltic sea to stand here… — Rebekkah Ford Copy Share Image
Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy. — Susan Beth Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“In my family nudity just doesn’t exist; I’m pretty sure my parents were both born fully clothed and still shower that way.” — Huston Piner 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
“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
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
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
There was a time, from 1935-1946, when teenagers and young adults danced to jazz-orientated bands. When jazz orchestras dominated pop charts and… — Scott Yanow Copy Share Image
Cecil Castellucci is writing Shade, who is the perfect writer for it. I love her young adult stuff, and it's pretty hardcore… — Gerard Way 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
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
“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“There was still a bit of sunshine in the sky, not that it mattered. High treetops and reaching branches entombed us from… — Thomas McClellan Copy Share Image
“The Ancestral Trail was split into two-halves of 26 issues each. The first half takes place in the Ancestral World and describes… — Frank Graves Copy Share Image
“Smiled. The type of smile that men drive all night in a blinding rainstorm on their bike to see. The type of… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I was recently living more comfortably surrounded by secrets... Like dozens of luxurious satiny pillows, they were embracing me from all directions… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“I just want to matter,' he said, unsmiling. It was like pulling a curtain back, peering behind a mask made of smiles… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“I yanked hard on the reins, and my horse's hooves slid on the linoleum as he skidded to a stop, nervously snorting… — Kirby Howell Copy Share Image
“Being a spy was something like standing on the south shore fending off a hurricane with a $2 poncho and an umbrella.” — Lynn Blackmar Copy Share Image
For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.” — A.S. King Copy Share Image
I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their… — Brian Bosworth Copy Share Image
“聪明一世，糊涂一时. Intelligent and cautious for a lifetime, it takes a second of stupidity to unravel it all.” — Molly X. Chang Copy Share Image
“Because when I kiss you, I want yours to be the first... and last lips I ever kiss.” — Renee Ahdieh Copy Share Image
“Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a… — Christina L. Barr Copy Share Image
“His lips press into mine in a kiss meant to make the world fade away. And it delivers.” — Rachel Harris Copy Share Image
“We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Is it not enough to shine, To know that friends are true? That love is born of friendship, And who you are… — Frederic M. Perrin Copy Share Image
“In that moment I was as jealous of her getting to leave Montana as I'd ever been of anything or anyone in… — Emily M. Danforth Copy Share Image
I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.” — Emlyn Chand Copy Share Image
