YA Book Quotes

Barbara Hall (The Music Teacher)

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Barbara Hall (The Music Teacher)

"Now that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?"

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“Now that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”

- Ally Condie (Matched)

"How many lives do you need to live, before you find someone worth dying for?"

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“How many lives do you need to live, before you find someone worth dying for?”

- Lauren Kate (Torment)

"I knew exactly what you’d done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to..."

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“I knew exactly what you’d done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.”

- Jennifer Echols (Going Too Far)

"Flawed, we’re truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful."

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“Flawed, we’re truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.”

- Justina Chen Headley (North Of Beautiful)

"There’s a difference between people who do hurtful things because they’re evil and..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:12:44 -0400

“There’s a difference between people who do hurtful things because they’re evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.”

- Bree Despain (The Dark Divine)

C.K Kelly Martin (One Lonely Degree)

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C.K Kelly Martin (One Lonely Degree)

"The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:12:44 -0400

“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”

- Lisa Ann Sandell (A Map Of The Known World)

"Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters"

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:09:08 -0400

“Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters”

- Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:07:42 -0400

“

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.

But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

”

- Lauren Olive (Before I Fall)

"Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere,..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:04:07 -0400

“Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere, sometimes landing in the oceans and in the middle of farms…you could make wishes on them if you like, but they are really just pieces of rock falling down from the sky, and they could land on your head and kill you just as you look up to make a wish. Really, they’re just rocks. They don’t care about your wishes at all.”

- Laura Moriarty (The Center Of Everything)

"But I’d understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:58:04 -0400

“But I’d understand if you chose love, Adam love, over music love. Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love’s a bitch.”

- Gayle Forman (If I Stay)

Sara Zarr (Story Of A Girl)

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:51:27 -0400

Sara Zarr (Story Of A Girl)

"Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:49:40 -0400

“Smiles that are meant to hide something never last very long, especially when the smile is hiding guilt.”

- Amy Kathleen Ryan (Vibes)

"You don’t have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,’ Nando said. ‘But you..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:45:38 -0400

“You don’t have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,’ Nando said. ‘But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.”

- Sydney Salter (Jungle Cross

"That’s what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what’s coming, of what..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:38:55 -0400

“That’s what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what’s coming, of what you’ll lose and what you’ll gain, and what kind of person you’ll grow up to be.”

- Laura Wiess (Leftovers)

Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

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Megan McCafferty (Fourth Comings)

Deb Caletti (The Six Rules Of Maybe)

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:47:25 -0400

Deb Caletti (The Six Rules Of Maybe)

"I’ve never told another soul about the stories I make up while I’m trying to fall..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:40:27 -0400

“I’ve never told another soul about the stories I make up while I’m trying to fall asleep, and I would never even consider writing them down. They’re just too personal. Nathan fell silent as well, and I realized that maybe I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. I wondered how many people in the world have daydreams spinning around in their heads that they would never put into words. Probably more than you would think.”

- Alicia Thompson (Psych Major Syndrome)

"Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the..."

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:29:00 -0400

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

- John Green (Looking For Alaska)