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If it had been a color, it might have been green. If it had touched her ears, it might have sounded rhythmic, like the creak of a rocking chair or drone of a bee. If it had a scent, it might have been sweet and drowsy, like fresh pine on the fire.
— Shannon Hale, Forest Born
Riley took a deep breath. "Yeah," he said, nodding. "You're right. We can't stop. We can't let this continue. The organization will do horrible things to their hatchlings and undesirables even if there are no rogues to take the fall. If I don't keep fighting Talon, who will?  "I will," I said softly.  He chuckled. "I don't know, Firebrand. Think you can handle a dozen hormonal teenage dragons if I go down someday?  " I lived with an obnoxious twin brother for years," I responded. " I think I could manage." He arched a dubious eyebrow, and I sobered. " But that's not going to happen, Riley, because you're not going to die. This work, what your doing now, is too important. Someone has to stand against Talon, to show our kind what the organization is really like. And your not the only one who has a chance." I raised my chin, my voice firm. " You can't let them win. We can't let them win. And I'm going to do whatever it takes for us to succeed." Riley was motionless, watching me with gold eyes, and I held his stare. " I'm not walking away from this," I told him. " Or you. I'll keep fighting, however long it takes.
— Julie Kagawa, Soldier
This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.
— Tessa Emily Hall, Unwritten Melody
Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe.
— Julie Kagawa, Soldier
I know you’re scared. I’m scared too, all of the time. But I have been running for the last six years and I can’t run anymore. Our world is falling apart. We aren’t living, not really. We are just… surviving.
— Jennifer Wilson, New World: Rising
Rin thought of the crossbow bolt. Of the whoosh and sting of wind and fire heat and the man who would have killed her. Of pushing in front of Enna. Of almost dying. Of home and Ma and being farther away than the lands in tales, and maybe never going home. Of standing by a strange tree in a faraway wood with girls who spoke the language of fire. Of a queen of Kel who wanted them dead.
— Shannon Hale
The only thing that restricted us from becoming one was our MINDS!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
It didn't matter what anyone else saw in me. For the first time, I felt like I was seeing myself.
— Lisa Brown Roberts, How (Not) to Fall in Love
I chose to spend the day with you. And I'm choosing now to have dinner with you.
— Lisa Brown Roberts, How (Not) to Fall in Love
No, I'm not one of those guys. I'd never get anything done if I rescued everyone who needed it. But I do like to help people I care about. That's why I'm here with you right now.
— Lisa Brown Roberts, How (Not) to Fall in Love
I had a whole evening planned. I was hoping to sweep you off your feet. Like those guys in your stupid books.
— Lisa Brown Roberts, How (Not) to Fall in Love
I'm so sorry about all you're going through, but I'm not sorry that it brought you to me.
— Lisa Brown Roberts, How (Not) to Fall in Love
Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talking except without the words.
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
From my bedroom window, I can see the sun peeping through the clouds. London certainly isn't a city noted for its climate, but I think, sooner or later, you get used to it, and live with the weather. For most of the year, everyone and everything seems to be tucked up cosily in grey cotton wool, but Dickens said that fog is a characteristic of London, didn't he? This climate could go hand in hand with my dismal humour.
— Sarah Iles, On tiptoe
A strange, beautiful new world awaits, Leonard.We've found an oasis in their ruins. We really have.You want to see it, so just hold on, okay?
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
I don’t know. I guess I’d just like to see you live one day for yourself.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
It’s like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.
— Claire Hennessy, Nothing Tastes As Good
There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.
— E. Katherine Kottaras, The Best Possible Answer
I’m so tired of crying.I’m so tired of losing.I’m just so tired.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God.
— Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager
She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]
— Jenna Streety
An uneventful, quiet life together is more my idea of a romance.”“Really? Oh. Well. It won't get you featured in any of the ballads though.”“Yes,” he said, with a heavy sigh. “And that will be the great tragedy of my romance.
— Sonal Panse, The Sunshine Time: Season 1 Episode 2
He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers, or legs, or a soul.
— Sabrina Fedel, Leaving Kent State
I can’t help to feel like they’re staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough.And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they’re right.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
The thing that hurts the most, that makes it hard to sleep at night, is not being with you" -Jess Tyler
— Natalie Palmer, Second Kiss
Before you say it, Derek's boyfriend doesn't look anything like me. ""How would you know?
— Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
Cross my heart, it's the truth. My Ma consulted a Seer when I was born. He's fated to marry a girl that wears that ring, she said.” “Did she now?” I said. “Well, this is in mad fashion in Mahmonir, so, prepare yourself, you're going to be overburdened with wives once the word gets around!
— Sonal Panse, The Sunshine Time: Season 1 Episode 3
My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.
— Brian James, Life is But a Dream
But there’s nothing.My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
And why did he have to call me “quiet”? I hated being called quiet. People always said it like it was some kind of deficiency—like just because I didn’t put everything out there right away, I was unfriendly or arrogant. My mom had understood. You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room
— Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato
That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
You've got nothing to be worried about," he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
I don't know what being in love with someone is supposed to feel like," Tyler admits with a breathy laugh, "but if being in love means thinking about someone every second of every day... If being in love means your entire mood shifts when they're around... If being in love means you'd do anything and everything for them," he murmurs, "then I am endlessly in love with you.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
The truth is, we are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher's Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal... the Rock Star's Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are.
— Jessica Brody, A Week of Mondays
Dark haired guys are so, so much better.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Love You?
It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
I lovehow grown childrenwill still nametheir mothersthe mostbeautiful.It isas though,their eyeshave met the cascadingcurvesand goldensilhouettesof every woman.Yettheir soulsstilldrumto the beat  of theirmother'swarmth and care.
— A Starry Eyed April
That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.
— Shaun David Hutchinson
I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.
— Estelle Maskame, Did I Mention I Need You?
No", she said, "I know that you don't like me.""You don't know anything.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Cath liked Levi. A lot. She liked looking at him. She liked listening to him -- though sometimes she hated listening to him talk to other people. She hated the way he passed out smiles to everyone he met like it didn't cost him anything, like he'd never run out. He made everything look so easy.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight -- and Levi can't even read.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.
— Jessi Kirby, Golden
The bent but unbroken ones.
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star
When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us.
— Nina LaCour, Everything Leads to You
So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??
— Amber J.
Let's be honest-we're a pretty intense bunch, yeah? Osten laughed, and Kaden's expression brightend. "But whatever we put her through, it was welcome. She'd rather have forced me to learn penmanship than never have had a daughter. She'd rather have been your living encyclopedia than not connect with us. She'd rather have begged you to sit still than have had only three children. None of this is because of us," I promised.
— Kiera Cass, The Crown
He smashed his lips together, and I knew what he was thinking. He always made that face before he brought up my mother. “Did it have anything to do with—”“Not everything is about my mom,” I snapped before he could get the words out. “Geez, you took one psychology class, and you think you’re frickin’ Freud.
— K.J. McPike, XODUS
See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.
— Shawn Stewart Ruff, Finlater
I get what he means, because I think I've played pretend my whole life. I don't know when, but a really long time ago, I decided who I wanted to be. And I've been acting like her -- whoever she is -- since. But I think the act is fading, and I don't know if I like the person I am beneath it all. I wish there were some kind of magic words that could bridge the gap between the person I am and the one I wish I could be. Because the whole fake it till you make it thing? It's not working for me.
— Julie   Murphy, Dumplin'
You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.
— Jesse Andrews, The Haters
eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants
— Ann Howard Creel, Call Me the Canyon: A Love Story
If you're going to give up so quickly, I don't think you'll last long but you should try telling yourself you won't ever give up. Nobody can say how this will turn out but you should try the hardest you've ever tried in your life so you'll have no regrets
— Hitori Nakano, Train Man
Why spend your whole life on the high seas looking for treasure,' Peter asked, talking to the clouds as he scaled a rope up what remained of the half-crumbled mast, 'when you could have a promised pay check in exchange for all the life you'd live between nine-and-five.
— Audrey Greathouse, The Neverland Wars
I was a new person. A new Aurora. I was Aurora of Itchikan City-State.
— Binta Userkaf, Itchikan: 'til death do us part
Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.
— Sarah Dalton, White Hart
Tea shook his head in dismay. “This is the end, Burt
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Go back to the band, Egg. Please.” - Bex
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
My head’s swimming. Sorry, sis. I’m a useless brother. You’re best off shot of me. - Burt
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I want you to kick Egg, Tea and Clipper out of the band!” - Daisy
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Why am I the only one who thinks she’s messing with us? - Egg
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Everything is about to go seriously tits up. - Clipper
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Whatever you just thought of, I’m not doing it.” Egg
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
It feels like there is a giant man inside my head blowing up an enormous balloon. The balloon is made of spikes and the man is shouting very loudly.' Egg
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Tomorrow I have to break Clipper’s heart. Really bust it open. - Tea
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I got it wrong – I was singing for myself when I should have been singing for you all. - Burt
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
Does this make us the biggest band on the planet or what?” Burt
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
We’ve been thinking about stage costumes for the ‘Satellites’ section,” Burt said brightly. “I think we should all dress as an element.”Egg frowned. “How do you dress up as water?”“I’ve thought about that and it would be a blue leotard and white kilt,” Burt replied earnestly.
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I gotta look out for my band mates. - Tea
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I’m not sure what’s more worrying. The list of demands or the fact he seems unaware the French stopped using francs in the last century and that Africa is a continent?” - Jerome
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
What an almighty balls-up. Who snorts a wasp? No sane person snorts a live wasp. It’s like putting your hand up a tiger’s arse. - Egg
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I am not a hero. Heroes do not cheat.
— Elizabetta Holcomb, The Guardian
No. I meant stay with me today. And tomorrow. And every day after.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
If I say that you are mine, then I am yours.
— Elizabetta Holcomb, The Guardian
We are young and the night is young. We are in the middle of somewhere and we are feeling everything.
— David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
— Tyffani Clark Kemp, Bittersweet
Although richer and Number 1 in the charts at this very moment, I’ve come full circle; once again I am the lanky, ginger, friendless geek.- Egg
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
I told Jerome I will ring Egg every day because he’s my pal and not because I want him back in the band to write our second album. - Clipper
— Jamie Scallion, Losing It
If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better".
— Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
You truly do have the power to reach your goals.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
You’re unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
The most meaningful hopes and dreams don’t come from outside sources—they come from within.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you’re trying to accomplish.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success—bigger than talent, money, or popularity.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you’ll feel.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
It’s up to you to make your dreams real.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
If all else fails, try to get some sleep…whether you realize it or not, getting enough sleep can make it easier to solve problems, control your emotions, and cope with change.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life—now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why?
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
The biggest regrets people have aren’t about what they did, but what they didn’t do.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person’s values are unique, so are each person’s dreams.
— Beverly K. Bachel, What Do You Really Want?: How to Set a Goal and Go for It! A Guide for Teens
The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful".
— Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
You’ve become a miserable bastard and I can’t deal with it anymore.”Bex on Egg – Book 2 “Having it
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
What's wrong with all black?"Egg - Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
I will not give up. I must not fail."Burt, Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."About Egg, Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
His mind buzzed, excited by new possibilities."About Egg, Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
My old man tells me every chance he gets I’m “style over substance” and that I’ve never done anything of value in my life. I’m fifteen. What does he expect? Being “cool as” is the only thing anyone cares about."Burt, Book 1 "Making it
— Jamie Scallion, Making It
We are The RockATeers.”Burt – Book 2 “Having it
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
When sober, which he hadn’t been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul.”Book 2 “Having it
— Jamie Scallion, Having It : Volume 2
By your eighteenth birthday you're supposed to know. They're supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster.
— L.E. Sterling, True Born
In Dominion they have a saying about the Lasters. Those who can, Splice. Everyone else comes in Last.
— L.E. Sterling, True Born
Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.
— Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince
Still, it’s really frustrating me that there doesn’t seem to be anything in my closet that’s appropriate to wear to an exorcism.
— Paige McKenzie, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
Because try as I might, perfect doesn't guarantee me anything. I can't control whether other people will want me or love me or even like me. I can only control how I feel about myself.
— Cora Carmack, All Broke Down
She thought of the Good Shepherd with His sheep. Of the Man hanging upon the cross. And the understanding bubbled up within her soul: He makes all things new.
— Alicia G. Ruggieri, The Fragrance of Geraniums
Everything in the world might be connected, but that doesn't mean the way we feel about them has to be.
— Cora Carmack, All Broke Down
Myron, all six feet of super cuteness, comes forward. He smiles and I almost die, because he has one adorable dimple. Instead of getting embarrassed about his first name, he offers his hand and says, “Call me McDaniel.
— Courtney Brandt, Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek
Denny and McDaniel go into the percussion room and grab a bizarre metal contraption. Denny lifts it over his head and I give him a strange look, to which he responds like I’m a five year old, “Carr-i-er.
— Courtney Brandt, Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek
Denny gave me a strange look when I showed up in the band room, but I have always believed playing drums is no excuse not to look cute. Besides, if McDaniel shows up, I want to look my best. Oh, crap, I should be paying attention. “Did you hear anything I said?”I answer honestly, “No.”Denny runs a hand through his spiked hair and asks, “Do you really want to learn how to march?”“I have to learn to march if I want to be a part of the section, right?”“Right.”“Then, it doesn’t really matter if I want to do anything. It’s something I have to do.”Denny looks confused and partially like he’s completely regretting the decision to add me to his section, but proceeds to teach me drill for the better part of two hours. While we run through the steps, I look longingly over at my quints, which I have secretly decided to name Quincy.
— Courtney Brandt, Confessions of a Teenage Band Geek
Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face." --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL
— Almney King, All Light Will Fall
I hold her, and I know now why caring about another person is so damn scary. It's not that they won't care about you back, because that either happens or it doesn't. You live with it or you do everything you can to change it. The really scary thing is the moment you realize that for the rest of your life, you'll feel twice the pain, twice the joy, twice the fear. Twice as helpless to control it all, too.
— Cora Carmack, All Broke Down
And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.
— Cora Carmack, All Broke Down
We go through our whole lives thinking that we belong in one place and not in another. We think certain ideas and actions have to be relegated to the tiny little boxes we place them in. What if we just reacted instead? What if we take whatever the world gives us and instead of focusing on what it isn't, we enjoy what it is?
— Cora Carmack, All Broke Down
He looked as surprised as I was about the kiss and more than a little guilty. "I ..." he started. "I'm sorry. That was wrong. You're my dead roommate's little sister, and I'm here to protect you, not to ..." He trailed off, lost for words.When I finally regained control of my tongue, I said, "It's depraved and you should be ashamed of yourself." I dropped the bottle into the snow and walked determinedly toward him. "Do it again.
— Karsten Knight, Nightingale, Sing
Sophomore Lucy Karate took a deep breath and concentrated her moss green eyes on the black squiggles in front of her. The sheet music on the page was exactly the same it had been for the past ten months. The difference wasn’t the music
—  it was the day. This was the day before auditions – her last opportunity to practice before her fate for the next school year was ultimately decided.
Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter!
— Beverly K. Bachel
They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love. She would be Kai’s wife. She would be the Commonwealth’s empress. And she had every intention of being blissfully happy for ever, ever after.
— Marissa Meyer, Stars Above
In preparing for this ceremony," Kai said, setting the bouquet on the mantel behind him, "I did some research and learned that the word Alpha has held many meanings across history. Alpha can refer to the first of something," said Kai, "or the beginning of everything. It can be attributed to a particularly powerful or charismatic person, or it can signify the dominant leader in a pack of animals, most notably, of course, wolves." His serious expression tweaked briefly into a teasing smile. "It has meanings in chemistry, physics, and even astronomy, where it describes the brightest star in a constellation. But it seems clear that Ze’ev and Scarlet have created their own definition for the word, and their relationship has given this word a new meaning for all of us. Being an Alpha means that you’ll stand against all adversity to be with your mate. It means accepting each other, both for your strengths and your flaws. It means forging your own path to happiness and to love.
— Marissa Meyer, Stars Above
Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. “No,” he says. “It's never like that.” I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
I think that when every person in this room looks at Ze’ev and Scarlet, they don’t see a Lunar and an Earthen. We don’t see an agenda, or two people trying to make a statement. I think we see two people who were lucky enough to find each other in this vast universe, and they weren’t going to let any boundaries of distance or race or even physiological tampering get in the way of a happy life together.
— Marissa Meyer, Stars Above
Of course, we know that the world sees this wedding as a historical event. The first recorded marriage union between a Lunar and an Earthen since the second era. And maybe that is important. Maybe the love and compassion these two people have for each other is symbolic of hope for the future. Maybe this wedding signifies the possibility that someday our two races will not only learn to tolerate each other, but to love and appreciate each other as well. Or, maybe…” Kai’s eyes glinted. "… this relationship has absolutely nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with our shared human need to find someone who will care for us as much as we care for them. To find a partner who complements us and teaches us. Who makes us stronger. Who makes us want to be our best possible self.
— Marissa Meyer, Stars Above
Love is worth everything. Everything.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Talent guided by genius can achieve anything
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
I stared at my lap. I wished I were confident, I wished I were brave. I wished he didn’t scare me. But the more he spoke the less I wanted to look away, and the more I did.
— Rose Fall, How To Get Your Heart Broken
Colours started to seep into his black and white life
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
This is an epiphany moment, I can either sink or swim
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
This is our life
—  there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.
I am Damian, the king of Antion, and no one will ever take someone I love from me again and live.
— Sara B. Larson, Endure
She smiled the most extraordinary smile and Egg knew his life would never be the same again.
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
I want to be with YOU!"Bex to Tea
— Jamie Scallion, Having It
Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.
— Humairaa Anseline, The Malevolent Rebirth
My body is like a Temple in Nepal. It is sacred, but has a lot of damage from the earthquake of my youth!
— James Hauenstein
I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.
— Lindsay    Anderson, Syrin
Media was a battle ground. So was the internet. People began walking openly with their weapons, whether it was a gun or a camera. Drones were always skimming overhead, filming the violence of the second civil war of the United States.
— Lindsay    Anderson, Syrin
You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Life is not only consisted of "yes" and "no", but a lot of "yes and's" and "no but's".
— Vann Chow
If you truly must obey your mistress. If you truly must have revenge, then you can start with me. But if you choose to follow your own path, well you can start that with me too if you like.
— Steve Hockensmith, Dreadfully Ever After
What you loved as a child, you will love forever
— Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
The ocean has a voice, one that haunts me with its music every moment I’m awake. Even in my dreams it tugs on me, building the ache inside my bones until I can’t ignore who I am. My mother says the water is dangerous, that beyond the innocent whitecaps they’re waiting, but I never hear her over the call of the sea.
— Tabi Card, Mersong
I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.
— Tabi Card, Mersong
She leaned over the bed to plant a goodbye kiss on his cheek. Instead he reached up and cupped her head in his left hand, so that he was in charge of her kiss and it landed oh his lips. It was not, as she would have expected, the fumbling kiss of a boy unused to dating but the practiced kiss of a man who knew exactly what he was doing.
— Lois Duncan
Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent
— Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?
— Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
So?" Mac says.I shrug."Oh, come on! Don't tell me you didn't feel something? That you didn't enjoy it?""It was nice, I guess.""You guess?" Mac laughs and swipes his hair from his brow. "Tough crowd.""Yeah, well, I guess you are an acquired taste.
— Ashley Mansour, Blood, Ink & Fire
I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't
— Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else
— Daniele Lanzarotta, Sudden Hope
When you are a Protector, in darkness you see the world through different eyes and the line between Beast and Savior is so thin, you find yourself wondering if it was ever there to begin with.The beat of a heart makes your soul ache, instincts so raw fighting them seems futile and until you are marked, the world holds its breath as within you lies the power to destroy them all.
— Kathryn Robson
...to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’. You’re one of the lucky ones. You’re the world to far more people than you think.
— Daniele Lanzarotta, Sudden Hope
To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who are beautiful inside and out…those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]
— Daniele Lanzarotta, Sudden Hope
Nothing is permanent, I tell myself over and over. Especially not a horse.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
I didn’t know if I was brave or reckless.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
No matter what, my chest always tightens up before a race. A rush of adrenaline spikes all the way down my spine, and it's like I'm right there. Right on top of Kali, squeezed in that metal stall, looking out at the dirt with my heart in my throat. The starter opens the gates, and the bell rings.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
Vacations in my family are rare events squeezed between races. I can count them on one hand, and even those amount to only a few hours each. Shopping in Los Angeles. Sinking my toes into snow white sand in Florida. They are tiny slips of memory strung around horses.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
When the striped pole slips by I slide low in the saddle and give Kali room to go. One moment she's bottled up, and the next she's a stream of copper, her chestnut mane smacking me hard in the face while her strides lengthen and everything becomes a droning rumble of hooves and wind.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
Kali has a habit of doing these beautiful works that never translate during the races in the afternoon. They call animals like her morning glories, or horrendous bets. Take your pick.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
I'm bouncing up and down next to Beck, and his arm is around my waist because it's second nature to reach out and grab something during a race. To grab it and hold on, or shake it, or just feel that it's there and you can steady yourself against it to bring yourself back to earth when the race is done.
— Mara Dabrishus, Stay the Distance
I don’t like days that end without answers. I’ll just keep my eyes open and we’ll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don’t have time to laugh.
— Stacey  Donovan
The harsh dimness that follows loss isn’t static, but charged with the energy of immanent change. Hurt, I was left with a choice: wallow and stay in the dark, or seek light and fight to reach it. These two paths emerged. I had this choice to make. Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation. I saw that this mountain valley, haunted by senseless murders, darker, had absorbed unthinkable violence and turned it into mesmerizing light. My rape became my catalyst. Rape gave me cause to flee the muteness – forced me into making a bold and forceful change. I chose to fight to find a way to leave to seek my own strength and beauty. I was searching to find the way to make light.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young.
— Alanda Kariza, Travel Young
With his height, Caleb looked over their heads toward his cousin and…his throat tightened. There in a yellow dress that emphasized the elegant line of her shoulders and a new hair cut that accentuated the shape of her face stood the most exquisite girl to have ever graced the Dodge Cove elite with her presence.
— Kate Evangelista, No Love Allowed
Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets after and better at chasing you ...
— Tiffany FitzHenry
... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.
— Jenny Lynne, Above the Sky
The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me.
— Tahereh Mafi
Please, Tommy. Please
— James Dashner
Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
She drank the bottle.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
No,” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
I don’t want a challenge with a woman.” Adrian was getting bothered by his friend’s persistence. “I want one who’s ready and willing. You see how pristine that chick looked? We’re talking completely uncharted territory. She’s probably never had a tongue in her mouth, much less a cock. I ain’t got time for training.
— Cherie Summers, A Melody For Adrian
It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
The fuel for a great fire is all round them, ready to consume the evil of Plexus; we just have to wait for the spark.
— Damian Wampler, Sevara: Dawn of Hope
Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.
— Carla Trueheart, The Ritual of the Four
When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not?
— Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity
I’ve brought you some things from home,’ I said, gesturing at the bag on the floor. ‘Some clothes and books – things like that.’‘Books – great! That’ll make things easier. You know I can’t read worth a damn right now!’‘There’s also some music. Schubert’s fifth, Mendelssohn’s third, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s fourth—’‘I would have preferred his sixth.’‘You’re not well enough for his sixth'.
— Gavin Extence
Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave.
— Shelly Crane, The Other Side Of Gravity
All dreams have to come to an end.
— Timothée de Fombelle
He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. “If you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it.”Amusement showed in his hazel eyes. “Think you can stop me?
— Chris  Cannon, Blackmail Boyfriend
Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.
— Katie Neipris
Survival isn't a race. It's a dance.
— David Iserson, Firecracker
You don't know the art of eating ice cream." I mumbled."And what's that?" He said sarcastically."That is, to enjoy every single spoonful, lick it thrice to completely clean it off, then take another spoonful, and so on. You know what's sweet time? That is called sweet time. Next time, do it and enjoy the heavenly taste of it. It will increase its deliciousness by tenfold." I grinned at him.
— Zainab T. Khan, A Bucket full of Awesome
Never let a man determine the woman you want to be.
— Maranda Evans, Troubled
There are things you do when you are a teenager, or a dancer, or just a girl, I guess. You cut your food up in special ways, or you cut yourself, or paper dolls. You pretend that there is an invisible audience watching you all the time, and you do things to impress them or pretend that they didn't see what you just did because their live video feed was interrupted somehow. You steal things or tell lies or speak to strangers in a Russian accent. You have sex with someone you love, or with someone who gets you really drunk. You lie to your parents, your boyfriend, yourself, your therapist. You cheat on your homework or do other people's homework for money. You get up, you take class, you rehearse, you perform, you go to bed. How do you decided which of these things are truly crazy and which are just being alive?
— Meg Howrey
Let your life be a song. Let music be the background of whatever human things you will do for this blazing, spinning planet, and never let go of the good, never let go of the kindness.
— Logan Keys
Those eyes, they were my own kind of madness
— Logan Keys
She’d always pictured her future self as a lone wolf traveling around the world, ensnaring romantic conquests and achieving her wildest and most ambitious goals. She didn’t think that at nineteen she would be so dependent on other people; she pictured herself as an autonomous and untouchable force that occasionally flitted back home to show off her new feathers before flying away to her life that was much more exciting than theirs.
— Katie Neipris
If you're saving, you're succeeding
— Steve Burkholder
This is why I keep telling Ash to get you a cat or a bird. Guns aren't proper pets.
— Andrea Cremer, The Inventor's Secret
He was her moon. He balanced out her tides.
— Katie Neipris
You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise
— Kirsty Moseley, The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
The weekends are too short for sleep!
— Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh
Angel I've loved you since the first time I laid my eyes on you. It's only ever been you. It will always be you, marry me?
— Kirsty Moseley, The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window
I'm a fool.At least i'm a self aware fool.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.
— Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh
My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.
— Gwenda Bond, Fallout
Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.
— Ashley Earley, The Darkest Light
Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all good-looking individuals managed: making the rest of us feel both envious of them and sad for ourselves, intentional or not. They had activities outside of school and followers online—people of social necessity who sat at home on Friday nights and 'liked' popular posts in hopes that they, too, might one day be as attractive and personable.
— Bryant A. Loney, To Hear The Ocean Sigh
The greater a man's - or boy's - ignorance of the world, the more certain he is that he sits in the center of that world.
— Avi
In the Empire, the Scholars are not allowed to read and, like so many bullies and power-seekers who hide behind ideologies to justify the terrible things they do, their oppressors wear masks. 'An Ember in the Ashes' suggests that such masks (literal or figurative) don’t work. Not forever, anyway. Masks only cover faces. It’s actions that show who we are.
— Chelsey Philpot
If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.
— Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.
— Lauren DeStefano, Sever
I 'd never seen him cry
—  I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .
You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Acknowledging that my biological imperative may not include the drive to procreate, that I just might be attracted to XX chromosomes instead of XY? That's so stupid-minor in comparison to the fact that I might actually be in love for the first time in my life. It's with a girl...so what? Lesbian, bisexual, whatever! Thus isn't about categorisation or chromosomes. This is about how I feel about another person.
— Kristen Zimmer, The Gravity Between Us
How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.
— Micalea Smeltzer, Last to Know
Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.
— Almney King
I couldn’t compete with Honesty, With her dark blonde hair streaked with auburn, With her captivating blue eyes, With her legs that stretched into forever. She had the brains, The body, The perfect resume for girlfriend. And me? I had the perfect resume for Best friend. All the boys said so.
— Elana Johnson, Elevated
A man of peace is guided by peace, but when that peace is threatened, he has a choice to either kneel down and die silently as it falls into chaos, or fight for it and not look back. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
— Ryan Mark, Tremor
The lights disappear, The elevator shudders, Stalls, Quits. All in the same nanosecond. All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think, And Travis so close I can't breathe.
— Elana Johnson, Elevated
Personal opinion time: some of the bravest, strangest, coolest stories right now are being told in the young adult space. It's stuff that doesn't fly by tropes or adhere to rules -- appropriate, perhaps, since young adults tend to flick cigarettes in the eyes of the rules and don't play by social norms as much as adults do.
— Chuck Wendig, 500 Ways to Write Harder
He runs his hands up my back and into my hair, pulling me closer. I lose myself in the feel of his body against mine and the way his soft lips coax mine to life. Almost without thinking, I wrap my arms around his warm waist.
— Dannielle Wicks, Fading Away
It’s all inside of you—what you want, who you are, and who you want to be. Just give it time.” He pulls away and helps me to my feet. “Nobody makes you, you. You make yourself.
— Patricia Vanasse, Against All Odds
I have to get off this elevator.I can't ride with him, Can't look at him, Can't be this close to him. Can't, Can't, can't.
— Elana Johnson, Elevated
I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me. Now I’m trapped. I cannot survive in this elevator. Not with him, Not for much longer Another second.
— Elana Johnson, Elevated