Young Adult Series Quotes

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

“Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk.”
― Rachel Vincent, If I Die

“She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“Creativity is the catalyst to the future.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff

“Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.”
― Nikolas Lee, The Iron-Jawed Boy

“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

“It is hard to imagine the things you have never seen.”
― Steven J. Carroll, All the Worlds of Men

“There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“You Just scared me half to death," I said.

"You should be thrilled you're halfway there.”
― Rae Hachton, Pretty In Black

“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

“Dying would be normal for me, and one day, I'd be buried beneath a stone, and nothing would matter anymore. It'd be ordinary, like life.

And that terrified me, endlessly.”
― Rae Hachton, Black Satin

“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.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution

“She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.”
― Jenna-Lynne Duncan, Aftermath

“Are you all right,” he whispered, his lips brushing the tips of my spiky hair. Granted, I knew he was only being discreet so as to save poor Hillary from being reamed again, but my knees didn’t know the difference. They betrayed me, buckling under his hot breath on my ear and the deep whisper that tickled my senses.”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from deprivation. Charlotte was always on my mind. In my dreams, her name balancing fatally on my lips at all times, the scent of her drove me on through my everyday tasks. It was in denying myself of her soft skin and intoxicating presence that I truly began to lose touch.”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Severance

“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.”
― Steven J. Carroll, A Prince of Earth

“Do not be so ridiculous, I can more easily find you someone else.” Gripping the bars of his prison so strongly that the bones of his knuckles showed prominently through his pale skin, the monster growled again, “I will have no other.”
Nearing the end of his patience, Klaus demanded, “Why? Why are you being so impossible?”
Turning to the diminutive creature beneath the blanket, he smiled nastily, his light red eyes gleaming, “Because he wants her.”
― Gwenn Wright, Filter

“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

“For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was very close.
Wretched curiosity!
But she would fight it and not look.
“Katherine,” he whispered, his breath rolling in a warm wave across her cheek. A traitor tear spilled out, the humiliation was too much to contain. Gently, a finger dabbed the wetness from her skin. He said it again, softly, as though it pleased him just to say it, “Katherine.”
“Viktor!” the accented voice bellowed from below. And then the shadow was gone.
Darkness overwhelmed her then and carried her away to a land of crows and mocking strangers.”
― Gwenn Wright

“To the world, she is formidable. To me? She is the world.”
― Taherah Mafi

“She'd done it again... killed another monster with his own sins.”
― Natasha Larry, Unnatural Law

“He tries not to think about The Core...but he couldn't deny it...they were all becoming something else entirely. Darwin's Children”
― Natasha Larry

“I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm”
― Natasha Larry

“I pulled my chair up to the table and Alex sat down, following suit, unable to guard a smile from breaking onto his lips. He was handsome; I had to give him that. His hair was perfectly gelled and his face was smooth and free of stubble. I could even detect the scent of cologne, something I knew him to rarely wear.
“I didn’t expect you to show up,” he admitted.
“Then why’d you invite me?” I hoped that I hadn’t sounded rude.
He chuckled and tucked his napkin into his lap. I did the same. “I guess I’m just a glutton for punishment.”
― Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Severance

“I chose to stay awake, this time lulled by the sounds of a very special mixtape made for me by a very special boy who just might have my heart.”
― E. S. Rosalynn

“There is no such thing as a disability, and we say diffability, because we know you are all different, and possess different abilities.”
― Troian Anderson, The Light of Winter

“Words would just jump out of my mouth before I even realized what I was thinking.
I was told in no uncertain terms that this was not the way we treated our elders, or anyone for that matter. Our culture is about the respect for everything around us. At that time, they didn’t realize I had Tourette’s.”
― Troian Anderson, The Light of Winter

“The deceased paid close attention to the manners of the living. If the living were polite and respectful, the spirits participated in the séance; if the living behaved badly, the dead didn’t bother showing up.”
― Deborah McTiernan, Lilly Noble & Actual Magic

“Lilly closed her fist over the pendant to block out the sound. She wanted to toss the thing into the sea, but it had belonged to her mother, and her father said its luck would keep her safe while she was far away from home. Lilly decided she could use all the luck she could get, even if it came in the form of a creepy locket.”
― Deborah McTiernan

“One young light will rise from despair to lead us out of the spell of darkness.”
“What spell of darkness? There is no darkness!” he insisted. “It isn’t here yet, but it’s coming. Can’t you feel it?”
― Deborah McTiernan, Lilly Noble & Actual Magic