Young Adult Fiction Quotes

“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.
Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.
But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.”
― Emmy Laybourne

“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.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be -- if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being.
But as hard as I had manifested Astrid Heyman with her hand in mine, her blue eyes gazing into mine, her lips whispering something wild and funny and outrageous in my ear, she had remained totally unaware of my existence. Truly, to even dream of dreaming about Astrid, for a guy like me, in my relatively low position on the social ladder of Cheyenne Mountain High, was idiotic. And with her a senior and me a junior? Forget it.
Astrid was just lit up with beauty: shining blonde ringlets, June sky blue eyes, slightly furrowed brow, always biting back a smile, champion diver on the swim team. Olympic level.
Hell, Astrid was Olympic level in every possible way.”
― Emmy Laybourne

“A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance...”
― Cameo Renae, In My Dreams

“How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld

“All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.”
― Nathalie M. Leblanc, Shrinking Forward

“You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.”
― Kimberly Sabatini

“Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can’t help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most…Himself.”
― Lauren Hammond, A Whisper To A Scream

“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”
― Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

“He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.”
― Cameo Renae, In My Dreams

“Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!”
― Garry E. Lewis

“Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!”
― L.A. Jones

“I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

“Oh my God, cheese burn!”
― Susan Bischoff, Hush Money

“I went through a phase in sixth grade where I wore the same T-shirt every day, just to see if anyone noticed. They didn't so I gave up after sixteen days in a row.”
― Lynn Painter, The Do-Over

“I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me to hope, and with desperation that I’d never known before I knew that I must find my way back to her.”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Severance

“Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.”
― Cameo Renae, In My Dreams

“Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.”
― Rusty Fischer, Ushers, Inc.

“I had good intentions once upon a time. Well, September.”
― Claire Hennessy, Big Picture

“The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to return. When I hear nothing but the sound of my own breathing I allow myself to drift back into a dreamless slumber.”
― Lauren Hammond, Asphodel

“If you always try to measure yourself with
money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.”
― Steven J. Carroll, The Road to Jericho

“. ‘Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they’re cops all the time, never mind it’s a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.’
He tsks at me. ‘Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?”
― Sarah Alderson, Out of Control

“A female dragon’s tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term ‘Getting some tail’ came from?”
― Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Humorous Fantasy Adventure

“Writing is the new reading”
― Emlyn Hall, Diary of a Teenage Murderer

“For everyone who has been turned away for not being 'ill' enough, or given a list of phone numbers instead of the help they needed, or told "it gets better" even though a promise of tomorrow doesn't help today.

You deserved so much more.”
― Hannah Clayton, Until the Shadows Lengthen

“Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.”
― Laura Goode, Sister Mischief

“Something else you should really know about me. When I get nervous, my fingers shake. I’ve noticed this a lot recently. When mother and father argue and their voices are falling around the small family apartment, when their voices are banging against my bedroom door, I can feel my fingers start to move. I tell my fingers to stop and, sometimes, they do. But if I look at my hands closely, once I’ve told them to stop, and I try to focus on keeping them as still as possible, I notice that they are still moving.”
― Kerem Mermutlu, My Last Summer

“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.”
― Calista Lynne, We Awaken

“He was some exotic planet and I was his favorite satellite. But he's no planet, just the final fading light of an already dead star.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.”
― Adele Rose, Possession