Young Adult Novels Quotes

“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

“Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll...I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott

“Please, touch me, I pray.”
― Jess C Scott, The Intern

“Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.”
― Margaret A. Edwards

“Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.”
― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life

“As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me.”
― Lauren Hammond, He Loves Me...He Loves You Not...

“My hands are in his hair and his arms wrap around my waist tighter. I know what Henry does to me. I’m space bound. A rocket about to blast off. And I want Henry to send me to the moon.”
― Lauren Hammond, He Loves Me...He Loves You Not...

“Then his lips caress mine. It’s only a brush, but the warmth overheats every part of me. Leaning back, my elbow bumps into the power button on the dryer and the old appliance starts moving. Spinning. Spinning like my head. Like my heart.”
― Lauren Hammond, He Loves Me...He Loves You Not...

“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

“He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before Dean Devlin shows up and rains on our private parade, I snort and ask," Good book? "
I forget I'm pretending to be sitting behind my two-thousand-ninety-eight-page Highlights of Modern Chemistry book, so he snorts back. "Better than yours.”
― Rusty Fischer, Becca Bloom and the Drumsticks of Doom: A Heavy Metal Love Story

“Some sample lyrics I think I catch:" My engine races up to seventh gear; wrap your legs around my engine, dear.... The tunnel's dark, but the ground is wet; I lubricate it with my dripping sweat! "
Or, something vaguely disturbing and gross like that; it's hard to tell with the wailing guitars and the front man screaming through his ravaged vocal chords.”
― Rusty Fischer, Becca Bloom and the Drumsticks of Doom: A Heavy Metal Love Story

“Carla had realised there wasn’t just one destined adventure in life, there were thousands of them.”
― Claire Chilton, Legacy

“Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press”
― Caroline Bock

“Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile.”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Volition

“We’ve all acted like sheep, blindly following the herd and leaning on our Powers in lieu of knowledge. But knowledge is what could save us.”
― Starr Z. Davies, Unique

“Dad once told me that even a hopeless situation doesn't always stop him. Not because he believes there'll be a miracle, but because giving up feels too final.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, The Oracle Code

“The world was whole then, the sun and moon together as one.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“If you had watched any of those three wonderful films, you would have caught Vampire Gym Teacher # 2: Back to Cruel, where the vampire hunter ties a vampire chick to the shower and tortures her by turning on the water. They can‟t stand water, even if it‟s not holy water.”
― Rusty Fischer, Ushers, Inc.

“I'm going to do what God says, no questions asked. Even if I got killed for it, I'd still obey Him. People can take my life from me, but they can't take Jesus from my side."...Ruth's face glowed with the joy that comes from telling others about Jesus.”
― Careena Campbell, Free

“When His Holy Spirit comes into your life, He gives you strength to stand up for the truths in His Word.”
― Careena Campbell, Free

“Ruth swallowed hard." I'm stuck, God! Only You are safe!”
― Careena Campbell, Free

“It always seemed hard to keep track of time in the Forests of the Fiendish as trees were always hiding the sky above. Only one rule applied here; the thicker the darkness, the deadlier the beasts.”
― Victoria Moschou, Guardian of the Auras

“Maybe one day she will realize what she lost.”
― Akhin Abraham

“It should’ve stopped him, to know that his enemies were encouraging him instead of fighting him, but he kept on going.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I closed my eyes and leaned my head back to face the boundless sky above covered by the darkness of my eyelids, and asked for mercy when there was none; ask for justice where there was corruption; for fleeting light in the sinking darkness; for life when there was only death and an accompanying silence; for rain in the blazing fire, where flames rose and burned and became a paroxysm of war and peace, of beauty and ugliness, of arrival and departure, of the awakened and those asleep, of content and sorrow, of sun and moon.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Live... What was it to live? How could we live, when Death was a shadow? How could we live, when we could hardly survive?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“I want to scream. I want to fling myself down and beat my hands against the ground. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. This isn’t how this story was supposed to end.

It feels like a lifetime ago that my family and I embarked on our simulated mission. I wish I'd known what would happen next. I wish I could go back in time and grab my family and run far away... all the way to the moon. But, of course, that's impossible.

And now it's too late to run.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Darkness Outside

“If there was one thing Felan had learned, it was that adults always made excuses, and children were always to blame.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium