Young Adult Quotes

Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.

If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

I love the Princess Diaries series! Do you?

Your past comes with you no matter where you go.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.

Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn

I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.

Apparently I couldn’t even pretend to be normal.

You can't doubt so much, Psyche

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next. Hello?

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes.

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara

I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

No friend had I made there, but I wasn't with this group to make friends, and besides, he sneered too much. I've found that people who sneer are almost always sneering at me.

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.

I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

Anyone that looked like that wouldn't need to tie up girls and imprison them in order to get them to marry him

Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.