Young Adult Fiction Quotes
I just want to domething that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.
They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna
I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything.
Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard.
And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I’ll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.
What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.
I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it's horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing
I turn and run, watching my feet trample a massacre of weeds. I mourn them. The only thing that grows is dandelions in the cracks of the sidewalk and we always end up killing them.
There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.
His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.
Ashlinn was lovely to look upon, someone who could easily snub half of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood and break the hearts of the rest.
This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."I frowned, "What's that?""Homework.
If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.
Sometimes it takes losing everything to see the truth in nothing, except love, honor, and death.
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.
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?
...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.
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.
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.
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief
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
