Young Adult Fiction Quotes

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.

If you always try to measure yourself with
money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you
keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.

A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement

Please, touch me, I pray.

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

You can always tell the heart of man by what he do, and by what he don't do...

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

Creativity is the catalyst to the future.

I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”
“How would you introduce her?” I asked.
“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

One can learn from what is not said.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

Light or Death!

This was a Darkness born of fire.

We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there... lying in that bed in the first place.

I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.