Young Adult Quotes

Picking me up, Lucas lays me on a blanket of soft sand and says, "You have no idea what you do to me.

We're all that matters. Our lips touch with each word he speaks, his stare so intense that I know he can see straight through to my soul.

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can’t legislate for chemistry.

Shhhhh, I am trying to read.

Teeth were created to be shown.

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.

Words have power, and sometimes, they stay withyou for life. It’s up to you to allow those words to define who you become.

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 liked the air I was breathing, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with my head, ” I assured him with a giggle. “Will you kiss me again?” I flirted sweetly.

It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer…

An eerie feeling plagued the back of her mind, insisting that a supernatural force was within the room, or worse, within her!

Ducks, embrace me as your king!"--James Herondale.

Don't be afraid of Pain. Pain only comes down to a certain point... beyond that, it can't reach you and the love you have inside.

I can't look at you. I don't want to talk to you. I just want my things. I want to go home.-Blaire Wynn

Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by Cyci Cade

Ari looks fiercely resolute. It’s the same look she has on her face at the start of every race: Dogged determination. My heart and head enter into full-on combat mode.

I kiss her for way too long at the door, and not for the first time, I wish that I could stay with her, to help chase those dark clouds away.

Ari is beautiful beyond comparison, and she has my heart and my soul for eternity. I thought I made that abundantly clear last night, but it appears I have further work to do.

You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here... maybe somebody else picks it up over there.

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.

She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.

We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

I won’t pressure you, Ari, but I’m not opposed to subtle acts of persuasion.

...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Am I less of a person because I weigh more?

But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

But when there's no hope to be found anywhere, even the tiniest chance is worth taking.

Even when the world throws it worst and then turns in its back, there is still always hope

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'm not giving up my life. My life began when I met you.

What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.

I didn't panic until my chest collapsed and I couldn't breathe. I gasped until I no longer had a throat to do it with. I didn't feel like I was holding my breath - it was more like I had no lungs.

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true?

He knows I’ve seen something in him. Something I recognize, only because it exists in me too.

Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.

It was the ideal place where people call ‘home.

Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse.

Even if that is the truth, ” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?

Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.

Her eyes burrow into my forehead like greedy grubs that want to feed off my private thoughts.

Spread your wings. Fly as far to know who you are.

A spell perhaps?” The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.