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You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.
— Moveena Rasheed
It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.
— Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy
Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.
— Habeeb Akande
You can be anything, you want to be in this life.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
— Paul Graham, Paul Graham Essays
If there’s any girl in the world more determined than you, I’ve yet to meet her.
— Chloe Gadsby-Jones
I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.
— Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura
It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!
— Habeeb Akande
The ox was bad enough, Mina thought as she checked out the damage to her vegetables, yet now I have goats to torment me. However, if the goru was like the king, then the goats must be like the political parties, so maybe in the end her life won’t be so different after all? Yet she had to make sure that it would be different this time somehow, at least for Sidip’s sake, if for no other reason.
— Andrew James Pritchard, To Revolt Is a People's Right
Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.Mac orders, “Deb, stop!”Deb says, “It’s just a scratch. I’ll worry about it later.
— David McKoy, Storm Warning: Call Sign: Wrecking Crew
I’ll never let go of you again,” she whispered. “I swear it.
— Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.
— Tamora Pierce, Lioness Rampant
Determination could easily become obsession.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
In middle school I played against you once. And lost. I was so frustrated that I continued practicing even after I retired... And then when I entered high school, hell yeah, I laughed. The guy I vowed to defeat no matter what was standing right in front of me as one of my own teammates. But now it's pointless to hold a grudge. Rather, I wanted to make you recognize me. (Takao Kazunari)
— Tadatoshi Fujimaki
. . . . I cannot escape my life but can only use my determination and courage to make it the best I can.
— Karen Cushman, Catherine, Called Birdy
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
— Habeeb Akande
Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.
— Habeeb Akande
One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.
— Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Indeed His blessings are in the struggle.
— Habeeb Akande
Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul
You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.
— Habeeb Akande
There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.
— Anthony Liccione
I am not going to let him win, Guillaume. Not this time. I could not keep him from making my mother pay the price for our failed rebellion. Fifteen years she has been his prisoner, fifteen years! And she is his prisoner, for all that she no longer wants for a queen’s comforts. I have had to submit to his demands and subject myself to his whims and endure the indignity of having him brandish the crown before me as he would tease a dog with a bone. But no more. I will not let him rob me of my birthright, and I will not let him keep me from honoring my vow to defend the Holy Land. I do think he is behind that very opportune rebellion in my duchy, and I would not put it past him to be conniving with the Count of Toulouse, either. And if by chance he did not, it is only because he did not think of it. No, a reckoning is long overdue, and we will have it at Bonsmoulins.
— Sharon Kay Penman, Devil's Brood
In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940.
— Jon Meacham, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
He couldn't think of a good place. At first he thought she hated all living beings equally. Lately he had come to believe he held a special place in her heart, just below rattlesnakes, pederasts, and spirochetes. Definitely a tough place to start from, but determination had always been Conal's strong point.
— John Varley, Demon
She knew how to put one foot in front of the other even when every step hurt. And she knew there was pain in the journey, but there was also great beauty. She'd seen it standing on rooftops and in green eyes and in the smallest, ugliest rock.
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky
If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.
— Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette
I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.
— Harry Houdini
Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.
— Jawe Querimit
A man's measure is his will.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
Seven times up, eight times down
— Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior
I need coffee to deal with this, and I’m not getting decaf.
— Matthew Arnold Stern, Offline
The treasures of life is hidden in troubles.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Relationships don't remain constant, but are in a constant state of evolving, either positively or negatively.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
One of the most lucrative privileges of an empty handed is the easiness to embrace wholeheartedly!
— Lukhman Pambra
Keep the overall feelings and objectives as positive.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Positive thoughts and actions when persistent can turn around any negativity.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Controlling what you are exposed to remains positive is paramount.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Happiness can only be achieved through experiencing positive thoughts.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Keep your thoughts focussed solely upon positives.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
Learn to process what happens as a positive.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
You don’t have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Rise against every negative thought that rises against you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you’re not there for yourself, how can you be there for others?
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Life is always interesting and is made of ups and downs. We are sometimes tempted when we are down to give up. I want to encourage you to surrender instead of giving up. Giving up makes you a victim, while surrendering empowers you. Be empowered, surrender. You will be inspired and witness the miracles of your life changing positively before your very eyes!
— Inshan Meahjohn
The truth may hurt, but fooling yourself will enslave you.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Don’t mistake:Kindness with weakness
— Assertiveness with arrogance
Faith is not blind when you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Faith is not blind if you consistently take the right actions to reveal it.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Not every problem can be solved. Some are okay simply to avoid. Go around the, go under them, whatever it takes to reach your higher goal. Sometimes you have to fail your way to success.
— Anna Mitchael, michelle sassa
When faith replaces fear, the gates open for you to receive enough money, optimal health, and genuine relationships.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
A positive can always be found in anything that is faced as long as the correct attitude can be maintained.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
You can’t imagine just how much believing in negative thoughts is affecting your life…until you stop.
— Charles F. Glassman
A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.
— Stephen Richards, Be First: Achieve Every Dream
I knew that Jessie and I were going to be okay; I knew we were all going to be okay. And I had faith that wherever our individual paths led us would be exactly where we were always meant to be. For a girl that had never believed in anything, this realization meant everything.
— Rose Fall, How To Get Your Heart Broken
When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.
— John Mark Green
Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.
— John Mark Green
Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
— John Mark Green
I wanna lie on a bed of clouds to be near the sun.
— jmemo
We have to have a warrior mindset and be engaged at all times. If we are going to move mountains, we cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time.
— Sandra M. Michelle, Move Your Mountains!: Strategies to Turn Adversity Into Victory
My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was “why bother?” This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail.
— Carlos Wallace
As long as other people's opinions matter more than your own, you're owned by them. You're not even free.
— Oprah Winfrey
Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success.
— Mark F. LaMoure
Great God of wonders, the Creator of all dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hang on! Don’t give up.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Keep dreaming big. You have a great glorious future.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May bless your journey on earth!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May God continue to grant you more grace for your work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The thoughts of the morning becomes the blessing for the day.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can actually possess all your wishes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be determined enough to live for your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
A peaceful river attracts many people
—  similarly a person experiencing peaceful emotions catches the attention of others.
I meet many a man, working ridiculous house for a wage that merely adds to their happiness, and if man can be so pre-occupied in waking for another's dream; than my experience has taught me one thing, the magic of our world exists in those who create alchemy from the dirt they have been shoved upon.
— Nikki Rowe
Focus on good thoughts.Focus on wonderful moments.Focus on beautiful places.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What most people don't realize is that when you decide to write and publish a book, it's not for stardom, or for fame, it's because you have a story that's inside of you that is dying to get out! You don't just come up with it one day, it's a thought that evolves into something unimaginably beautiful...
— Sontia Levy-Mason, As Low as It Gets
No matter what they take from me, they can't deny who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don’t give up. Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. There is a time for the fulfillment of your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Clearly state your goal, passionately pursue it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Dreams are possibilities, cherish your dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be inspired to dare great things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Every action in the present defines future possibilities.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Imagination is destination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It is vitally important to discern your true heart's desire. Your heart's desire is different from fleeting wants or insatiable cravings. Your heart's desire is positive, life-enhancing, and beneficial to you and others.
— Cheryl Hamada, The Goddess Intuitive Group Guidebook
Have you kissed many boys before?" he asked quietly. His question brought my mind back into focus. I raised an eyebrow. "Boys? That's an assumption." Noah laughed, the sound low and husky. "Girls, then?""No.""Not many girls? Or not many boys?""Neither," I said. Let him make of that what he would."How many?" "Why—" "I am taking away that word. You are no longer allowed to use it. How many?" My cheeks flushed, but my voice was steady as I answered. "One." At this, Noah leaned in impossibly closer, the slender muscles in his forearm flexing as he bent his elbow to bring himself nearer to me, almost touching. I was heady with the proximity of him and grew legitimately concerned that my heart might explode. Maybe Noah wasn't asking. Maybe I didn't mind. I closed my eyes and felt Noah's five o' clock graze my jaw, and the faintest whisper of his lips at my ear."He was doing it wrong.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
I was warned about you, you know."And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, "But you're here anyway.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.
— Marie Lu, The Rose Society
As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
I laughed as I twisted to face him and raised my arm to hit in one move. He caught my wrist and my laugh caught in my throat. A mischievous grin curved my mouth as I raised my other hand to hit him. He reached over me and caught that wrist too, gently pinning my arms above my head as he straddled my hips. The space between us boiled my blood.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over.
— Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms
Red in the head, Silver in the heart
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
Noah's eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the intimacy of us, eyes locked amid the scraping of twenty graphite pencils on paper.I shaded his face out of nothingness. I smudged the slope of his neck and darkened his delinquent mouth, while the lights accented the right angle of his jaw against the cloudy sky outside. I did not hear the bell. I did not hear the other students rise and leave the room. I did not even notice that Noah no longer sat at the stool.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
I showed him the Post-it. “You see They’re from Lily.”“Who’s Lily?”“Some girl.”“Ooh... a girl!”“Boomer, we’re not in third grade anymore. You don’t say, ‘Ooh... a girl!’”“What? You fucking her?”“Okay, Boomer, you’re right. I liked ‘Ooh... a girl!’ much more than that. Let’s stick with ‘Ooh... a girl!
— David Levithan, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
He reached forward to cup my cheek, the touch surprising me. "Please understand that no matter what I am or what has happened in the past, I am yours. I am devoted to you above all else, including my own life."I exhaled after holding my breath for what felt like forever. "That's pretty heavy, Will." His expression was impassioned, and the backs of his fingers brushed the side of my neck."It is a burden I am glad to carry.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.
— Susane Colasanti
Ellie, you need to understand," he said softly. "I exist only to serve you and fight by your side. Whether that fighting is to preserve your life or to make sure you smile, that is what I am built to do. You're all I have, and I will watch over you forever.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?
— Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass
Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
— Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin
He smiled. "we go inside.""I'm going to get tetanus in there." I grumbled."Don't go rolling in piles of dirt and rusty nails and you'll be fine.""You're an ass.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?""And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original—one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure, undiluted feeling, as if you were living it anew. It wasn’t love… and it wasn’t hate, or anger, or happiness, or even grief. Memories of those were but echoes of the true feeling.It was shame. Shame never faded.
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
— Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin
1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.
— Aprilynne Pike
Are you coming with us?"He looked down at me, his eyes a cool mint green. He seemed to have calmed down since Cadan left. "If you wish.""I would feel better if you were close," I whispered. "Cadan freaked me out.""Then of course," he said. "I'll follow you anywhere.
— Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire
It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.
— Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit
I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.
— Courtney Summers, Cracked Up to Be
Anyone ever teach you to run away from danger ” “Don’t be stupid Ellis.” I open the door. “That’s where all the fun is.
— Addison Moore
She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.
— Colleen Hoover, Never Never
Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?
— Lisa Tawn Bergren
He’s so powerful. Who knows maybe he’s advanced past eating
— Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin
Know all the Questions, but not the AnswersLook for the Different, instead of the SameNever Walk where there's room for RunningDon't do anything that can't be a Game
— Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Changeling
My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
— Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin
Ceaseless.Almost too much for this small frame.You make me part of the sky.
— Andrea Portes, Anatomy of a Misfit
That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
— Carrie Jones, Endure
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.
— Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Sherwood Ring
...looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One’s own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
— Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters
The panther prowled around me in a loose, wide circle. Its mouth turned down, almost in a pout, and it seemed disappointed that I wasn't going to run away. Or scream, at the very least. Its tail, which was at least three feet long, twitched back and forth in what seemed to be annoyance. Or maybe anticipation. I didn't know. I'd always been more of a dog person.I cleared my throat, and the panther stopped and flicked up one of its rounded ears. Listening."Um, nice kitty?
— Jennifer Estep
There was really way too much hotness going on back there.
— Aileen Erin, Becoming Alpha
They tried not to stare, but they couldn't keep their eyes away. I was a freak now. I made people uncomfortable and not necessarily because of my scars-but because what my scars represented. Danger, fear, and the unknown. Something had had happened to me, something not even I could remember. They all probably thought that I was crazy, that I somehow did this to myself. I couldn't blame them. ow could I? They might be right.
— Cambria Hebert, Masquerade
Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.
— Priya Ardis, My Boyfriend Merlin
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
— Lois Lowry
How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?
— Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Sherwood Ring
That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..
— Carrie Jones, Endure
Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that cell? Peaceable Sherwood? I'm tired of hearing about Peaceable Sherwood! Turn him loose in the cell for the night. - Which one of you said 'Where'll he be by morning?' Where does he look like he's going to be by morning, I ask you - a hundred and fifty miles away?"I was, to be exact, only seven and a half miles away by morning...
— Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Sherwood Ring
My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.
— Christine Fonseca, Transcend
Kids with roofs and hot food have better things to do than play survival of the thuggiest.
— Ryan Graudin, The Walled City
Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour.
— Aileen Erin, Becoming Alpha
So what if I don't learn algebra?''Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.''That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.''I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer, This World We Live In
There she stood. Dark circles ringed her eyes. Her face was pale, almost snow-white. She probably hadn't slept, either. She was still wearing the same dress. Her hair looked like a bomb had gone off. She was beautiful.
— Daniel Ehrenhaft, Friend Is Not a Verb
I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.
— Aileen Erin, Becoming Alpha
OK. Yoga position 99.
— Nicholas Reardon, Love of Chocolate
When we were little kids, 'friend' wasn't a verb. You didn't 'friend' someone. You had friends. It was only a noun. It didn't multitask. It was a simpler time, Hen.
— Daniel Ehrenhaft, Friend Is Not a Verb
stealing chocolates
— Nicholas Reardon, Love of Chocolate
This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.
— Megan Crewe, The Way We Fall
I'm hideous""You could never be hideous""Forget it" I wanted this conversation over."I can't forget it," Gran said, not giving up so easily. "I don't like to hear you talk about yourself that way. Your scars do not define you, young lady. Your action do.
— Cambria Hebert, Masquerade
Alan: "I had terrible stage fright."Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'"A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know."S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way."A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Surrender
Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?
— Rachel Cohn, Beta
‎''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off. 
— Shawn Kirsten Maravel, Volition
Crap. I was hopin’ all things ugly had been raptured, but you’re still muckin’ up the planet.”“We must share the same faith, honey. ’Cause beauty checked out when you showed up.
— Courtney Vail, Kings & Queens
Well, you should have a chat with your boyfriend, clarify your desires. Hate to break the news, but, uh, he’s cheatin’ on you. Tell him I said my dog kisses better than him and he hits like a girl.
— Courtney Vail, Kings & Queens
Me too. Do you want to meet me at the golf course after you get off work tomorrow? Then we can see each other all afternoon.""That sounds good."Which it did. But even if she'd said "Do you want to meet me at the surface of the sun?" I'd still have agreed to it.
— Mindi Scott
If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.
— Heather Anastasiu, Override
Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.
— Heidi R. Kling, Sea
But there is one cool thingabout having a weirdo mother.She works so hard at rememberingwhere she left herselfshe doesn’t have timeto work on me.
— Linda Vigen Phillips, Crazy
isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought.“All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now.
— Priya Ardis
...These guys totally agree that you're smokin' hot but think you're too young-""That means 'flat-chested'. Excuse me. I have to go somewhere and die of embarrassment
— Gail Giles, Dark Song
Having something to fight for will make us stronger than anything they can throw at us.
— Heather Anastasiu, Override
Did I mention how cute you look in my clothes?"Blushing I just look at what I'm wearing and laugh. "Chicks Dig me? And Sponge Bob boxers?""Chicks do dig me! And Sponge Bob is a great cartoon in your world.
— Sara Daniell, Visions
Kneel!” he ordered.	My head raised in defiance, I stepped forward. “I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one,” I said to the shadows inside.
— Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban, Two Moon Princess
Does anyone know how to start a fire?"Blank stares. "So we can't start a fire," [Jamie] said. "We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Jamie said in that voice of his, "You never saw us.""I never saw you," the driver repeated, sounding dazed. "You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs." "I wanted to lick his abs.""You're such an asshole," Stella muttered as she climbed out of the cab.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
And the way it felt?" I whisper, as if that might soften the blow of embarrassment I'm about to deal. "Is that how you were feeling - how you feel - about me?" A breeze comes off the ocean, and my skin feels strangely empty and open as he gives an almost imperceptible nod.
— Elizabeth Norris, Unraveling
The road ahead holds many tests challenging everything she ever believed. I whispered a prayer for her inner strength to guide her on her path. She was going to need it.
— Cambria Hebert, Masquerade
Are you?" I said. "Gay, I mean?" -I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, but after everything that had happened, I really wanted to know."No," he said. "I thought I was for about a w-w-week once. But now I know I'm not."If there was ever an answer that sounded like the truth, that was it.
— Brent Hartinger, Geography Club
Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing.
— Suki Michelle, The Apocalypse Gene
Before I could flinch, he planted his warm lips against mine, wrapping his arms around my waist. I didn't know what to do with my hands. I thought about putting them in his hair, stopping inches away from his head. I thought about putting them around his neck, but I stopped myself midflight. So there I was, being kissed by a boy I was falling hopelessly in love with and making a complete fool of myself, because I looked like I was flagging someone down with my hands." Concealed
— Sang Kromah, Concealed
You don't find a masked man wielding a gun interesting? Tell me...what do you find interesting then-Matt Carter
— Natasha Larry, Darwin's Children
So did you bring me down here to show me how artistic you are?" "No, I just wanted to talk to you alone. You know... get to know each other better." "In case you didn't notice, we were alone outside," I responded, with a raised brow. "Unless you think the birds were eavesdropping on our conversation." Concealed
— Sang Kromah, Concealed
Well, there is one boy- a boy that I've thought about forever. The sad part about it is that he lives in a world that only exists when the sun has expired and the moon stands alone in the sky- my dreams. Very sad to say it, but he'd the only boy I've ever taken the chance to think about." Concealed
— Sang Kromah, Concealed
"Take it easy, Jewels," Sebastian said, trying to sound playful, but worry was written all over his face.  "Why can't you ever call me by my real name?" "Well, at least I know you're coherent- you're back to asking your heap of questions."' Concealed
— Sang Kromah, Concealed
It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants left ran wildly through the bare, desert terrain, filth covering them from head to toe, bones protruding their leathery skin, and foam dripping from their mouths in search of one thing…Nourishment.
— Lauren Hammond
He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.
— Jennifer Lane, Streamline
Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it's horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing
— Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
He speaks in that strange sports talk, telling me about the start of the new season and asks if I follow baseball.	No. I really don’t.	He assures me if I stay in town long enough I will become a baseball fan. It’s a requirement of living in St. Louis. Everyone is a Cardinal’s fan.	“Loyal,” he tells me. St. Louis is a loyal town.
— Gwenn Wright, Filter
Oh my God, cheese burn!
— Susan Bischoff, Hush Money
And against whom is this censorship directed? By way of answer, think back to the big subcultural debates of 2011 – debates about how gritty fantasy isn’t really fantasy; how epic fantasy written from the female gaze isn’t really fantasy; how women should stop complaining about sexism in comics because clearly, they just hate comics; how trying to incorporate non-Eurocentric settings into fantasy is just political correctness gone wrong and a betrayal of the genre’s origins; how anyone who finds the portrayal of women and relationships in YA novels problematic really just wants to hate on the choices of female authors and readers; how aspiring authors and bloggers shouldn’t post negative reviews online, because it could hurt their careers; how there’s no homophobia in publishing houses, so the lack of gay YA protagonists can only be because the manuscripts that feature them are bad; how there’s nothing problematic about lots of pretty dead girls on YA covers; how there’s nothing wrong with SF getting called ‘dystopia’ when it’s marketed to teenage girls, because girls don’t read SF. Most these issues relate to fear of change in the genre, and to deeper social problems like sexism and racism; but they are also about criticism, and the freedom of readers, bloggers and authors alike to critique SFF and YA novels without a backlash that declares them heretical for doing so.It’s not enough any more to tiptoe around the issues that matter, refusing to name the works we think are problematic for fear of being ostracized. We need to get over this crushing obsession with niceness – that all fans must act nicely, that all authors must be nice to each other, that everyone must be nice about everything even when it goes against our principles – because it’s not helping us grow, or be taken seriously, or do anything other than throw a series of floral bedspreads over each new room-hogging elephant.We, all of us, need to get critical.Blog post: Criticism in SFF and YA
— Foz Meadows
The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.
— Suki Michelle, The Apocalypse Gene
In the past few years, more and more passionate debates about the nature of SFF and YA have bubbled to the surface. Conversations about race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, romance, bias, originality, feminism and cultural appropriation are getting louder and louder and, consequently, harder to ignore. Similarly, this current tension about negative reviews is just another fissure in the same bedrock: the consequence of built-up pressure beneath. Literary authors feud with each other, and famously; yet genre authors do not, because we fear being cast as turncoats. For decades, literary writers have also worked publicly as literary reviewers; yet SFF and YA authors fear to do the same, lest it be seen as backstabbing when they dislike a book. (Small wonder, then, that so few SFF and YA titles are reviewed by mainstream journals.) Just as a culture of sexual repression leads to feelings of guilt and outbursts of sexual moralising by those most afflicted, so have we, by denying and decrying all criticism that doesn’t suit our purposes, turned those selfsame critical impulses towards censorship.Blog post: Criticism in SFF and YA
— Foz Meadows
We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring, positive and sensible response to the former is a united front – you shall not divide us, here we stand – responding to the latter is an entirely different ballgame.This is my fear: that as a community, we don’t know how to critique ourselves, and that this is dong us damage. Criticism, and specifically the criticism of both literary publications and the mainstream press, has so long been the weapon of the enemy that our first response on seeing it wielded internally is to call it the work of traitors. We have found strength in the creation of our own conventions and the hallowing of our own legends, flourishing to such an extent that, even if we are not yet accepted into the mainstream literary establishment, we are nonetheless part of the cultural mainstream. We are written about inaccurately, yet we are written about; and if there ever was a time when the whole genre seemed a precarious, faddish endeavour, then that time is surely past.Blog post: Criticism in SFF and YA
— Foz Meadows
What, do I look like an alien? I don’t think aliens wear sexy dresses that make their boyfriends want to hide them from other men.”Wendy in Dancing with Death
— Andrea Heltsley, Dancing with Death
It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.
— Molly Looby, ZA
Lord knows why I find you attractive, Michael, when you generally smell like weed and broken hobo dreams.
— S.J. Goslee, Whatever.: or how junior year became totally f$@ked
That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.
— Molly Looby, ZA
Inside my chest, my lungs are wild animals, clawing at the cage."Oh, man," Autumn mumbles from beside me. "His smile makes me stupid."Her words are a dim echo of my own thoughts: His smile ruins me. The feeling makes me uneasy, a dramatic lurch that tells me I need to have him or I won't be okay.
— Christina Lauren, Autoboyography
More than the attraction - like a magnetic pull - between us, more than the tiny nagging voice that said he wouldn't hesitate to drink my blood and what then? Did he give me any reason to trust him? As far as a reason not to trust him, this was a reason, right here.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
I read the first few," said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.
— William Ritter, The Dire King
Are you going to sit or are you afraid I’ll suck your blood?”“No, I am not afraid.”“Then come sit next to me.” ~ Trent and Kiara: Scarred
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
Crushes are very strange things; they’re a warning sign in the word itself—crush: to deform, pulverize, or force inward by compressing forcefully. Whoever decided it was a good idea to equate deformity and compression to blooming affection was either very high or a genius—or maybe lost somewhere in between. But for good or bad, I could feel it: my heart pressing inward until the sound of it beating filled my ears again. I had a deformed, pulverized, compressed force on Chris, and there was nothing I could do about it.
— A.N. Casey, Permanent Jet Lag
If the future of the free world depends on me, please accept my apology in advance
— R.S. Gompertz, Life's Big Zoo
The cloaked figure leaned over and I turned my head just as I heard the crack of bones.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
I was so close to her that I could lean down just a bit...her lips were so close...I could lean down and kiss those full pink lips. I heard her heartbeat speeding up in her chest and it almost shattered any control that I had.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
I bit the inside of my cheek. I wanted to hit him. Not just for his presumptuousness, but for the way my heart jumped to my throat at his words and how his eyes looked me over.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
The flames that popped up wouldn't stop coming. Like they were coming straight from her soul. Straight from her anger. Her rage coming out of her to spread like wildfire over the forest. That was her darkness. Her power and the potential it had to consume her.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
We held each other's gaze for a long moment and I willed my breath to come evenly instead of the uneven gasps that I felt. Trent's eyes drifted down to my lips and then back up to my eyes again before we wrenched our eyes away from one another.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
If I'm supposed to be SO powerful then why can't I destroy that thing?
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
You can come if you want, but I'm going with or without you.Unless you're scared?
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
but wouldn't it be easier to let go?" she whispered brokenly, desperately."would it be easy to carve out a piece of my heart?" he shook his head. "no, you are a part of me now, and whether or not you are in this world, know that i will forever carry a piece of you with me.
— Ashley Townsend, Defying Shadows
Sofi could see the lights in the distance, like the stars hanging above and the planet perched in the sky. Waiting breathless by the moon for them to visit in their rocket ship.
— Mary Weber
Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)
— Deyth Banger
Sofi had no idea how long she sat like that. Tucked up beside this boy she despised more than anyone other than her mother while his music overwhelmed her senses and set them all right again. This man who'd used her and hurt her and probably would again, and yet who stayed, soothing her hair and not saying a word.
— Mary Weber
His gaze was like that of the moon, and had a dark side which he never showed to anybody.
— Shayla Orick
Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle… and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean
— Shayla Orick
She ran a streak of foundation under each eye, highlighter down the bridge of her nose, and bronzer beneath each cheekbone—a layer of armor before battle. Because that’s what these parties were to her, a war on all the heartbreaking boys in the San Francisco Bay Area.
— Jessica  Taylor, A Map for Wrecked Girls
Now our father lived in a world where we didn’t belong, with a needy girlfriend who didn’t look much older than Henri, a saltwater pool in need of daily skimming, and a flashy Porsche that needed to be raced around the roads of wine country.Fortunately, we didn’t need him either—that’s what Henri said.
— Jessica  Taylor, A Map for Wrecked Girls
I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
— Deyth Banger
Every night she wrote in that ledger.
— Every day he saw more signs that the ladies did not consider her one of their own.
I ate a rabbit for you.""Is that supposed to be romantic?""Why? Do you want it to be romantic?"Trent and Kiara, Scarred
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
They say there is a fine line between love and hate. I once loved Kaleib like a brother, now I hated him with the same conviction.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
Her voice.That's what drew me to her. It was gorgeous, perfect, angelic.Ironic, that a demon should be drawn to the voice of an angel.
— Amanda Leigh, Scarred
People who make time for the sadness in your life, not just the joy, are worth keeping around.
— Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa
She pulled me into a hug and I squeezed her so tight we lost our breaths."I love you, Soph." She pulled back from me, her eyes wide and searching. "I'll see you really soon.""I know," I said, forcing my smile. "And I love you too."She tapped my nose and dropped her voice to a conspiratorial whisper."We're the real love story here, you know that, don't you?"I wiped a tear from my cheek. "I know that, Mil. I've always known that.
— Catherine Doyle, Mafiosa
Lady's mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat.
— Kiersten White, And I Darken
There are people like me!... That you are afraid of me!?... This is ain't a problem.. people like me collect money... you don't do something correctly or you aren't doing your job properly... I am here to punish ya.
— Deyth Banger, Afraid - Part 2
The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...
— Samantha Lee Churcher, Caw
You will be able to do great things when you know and truly understand that all you really have and can control is your own life. Everything else is second to that.”~ShirLee McGarry~ 06/12/2010
— ShirLee McGarry, The Adventures of CluckCluck: CluckCluck Goes to Court
I would die for you.
— Nely Cab, Fruit of Misfortune
We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.
— Jennifer E. Smith, Windfall
Didn’t anyone ask you where your parents are?""They asked. Especially about my parents.""What did you tell them?""I said I ate them.""Jesus, Rosa.
— Justine Larbalestier, My Sister Rosa
This," I say softly, "is going to change everything."I don't mean it the way I usually do.I don't mean that change is hard or scary, though it's definitely both.I mean only to say this: that sometimes, through good luck or bad, through curses or fate, the world cracks itself open, and afterward nothing will ever be the same.All I mean is that this seems like one of those times.
— Jennifer E. Smith, Windfall
Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.
— Stacey  Lee, The Secret of a Heart Note