Best Young Adult Fiction Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Please, touch me, I pray.”

“I'm alright," he replied with a beautiful smile that melted my soul. "I'm happy to be with you, Bianca.”

“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?”

“Why don't you check out those teenagers in the middle row? They've been going at it like dogs in heat ever since the previews. They're probably both werewolves. And even if they aren't, you should throw them out on principle alone.”

“He grinned, a very dark and evil grin… the kind of grin that the Grinch had before he stole Christmas.”

“Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.”

“The voice blurs and fades, like a faint cry riding on the tails of the wind. I yawn and stretch, rolling over. I fold my pillow under my head and wait for the voice to return. When I hear nothing but the sound of my own breathing I allow myself to drift back into a dreamless slumber.”

“I went through a phase in sixth grade where I wore the same T-shirt every day, just to see if anyone noticed. They didn't so I gave up after sixteen days in a row.”

“A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance...”

“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.”

“I reached down and picked up a baseball bat at my feet and I flung it as hard as it could. It circled and arced high in the air until it slammed against the side of the dining hall with a crack and fell.”

“I know that I'm the only one who truly cares about my happiness, so I make it a priority”

“When Shaundelle turned and looked back at Nonie she had her lips pursed. "The man say wear whatever you want. Wear black, girl. It's slimmin', not that you need any slimmin' with your skinny self, but it makes me look like I've been dietin' for a week. I don't want to be the only one wearin' black, so wear black, okay?”

“When they’re together, the world could fall apart around them and they’d never notice or care as long as they have each other.”

“When I make love to you,’ he said in a low whisper right by my ear, ‘I want to be able to give you one hundred percent of my attention. Right now, with the Unit on our tail, I’m going to be giving you less than fifty percent. I’ve got one eye on the door and one on you, not to mention a gun under the pillow. Not exactly the accessory I imagined.”

“And to think of all colors in the world, blood chose to be red." ~ The Fray Theory”

“Is that your cheap way of telling me you want to kiss me?”

“There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes.”

“When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.”

“There is no law stronger than that of”

“There's only one of him, she thought, and he's right here.”

“I stare at him for a few more minutes, my heart expanding with love for him.”

“But you know, mon petite, what you got is a gift. And when de good Lord gives you a gift you have to use it. Dat's why he put you here on dis earth. Sometime it's gonna be to help a soul cross over to de other side to meet him. If dat's whey you gott do, den dat's what you gotta do. You can't just keep collecting de dead. You gonna have to find a way to take what you got and work wit dat.”

“Who's the young man beside you?" Helen suddenly asked. "Oh, I see, you're one of us." She turned to Nonie. "And you did introduce us before." She tapped a finger against her right temple. "Every once in a while this old clock up here forgets to click to the next second. I apologize for that.”

“Oh, uh-uh," Shaundelle said. "I'm not gonna be no place where no ghost is gonna be knockin' nobody upside the head. I'm outta here. I'm not going to take any chances that some ghost is gonna mess up this pretty face.”

“Margaret's voice, with its raspy twang, reminded her of magnolias and whiskey.”

“There's something about the thousands of glittering lights, the veil of nighttime that almost makes this place beautiful, especially in the reflection of the water. It makes everything askew, disoriented. There's more truth in a ripple of water than in a clear day.”

“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.”

“Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen.”

“Rule number 2 - don't listen to me!" Arriane laughed, "I'm certifiably insane!”

“This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did.”

“Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite”