Top 34 Best Ya Novel Quotes
#1. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
Heather Demetrios
#2. My hobby is to make up these "false stories". The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to. - A-ya
Suzumu
#3. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
Heather Demetrios
#4. I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
Erica Sehyun Song
#5. Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#6. It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.
Laura Tims
#7. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Erica Sehyun Song
#8. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
Erica Sehyun Song
#9. Of course, that's how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it's happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?
Tom Xavier
#11. I never get writer's block. My secret ... I have purring cats in surround sound while I write ... best white noise on the planet. R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block.
R. Rose
#12. I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
Carrie Vaughn
#13. For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
Hallie Ephron
#14. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#15. I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
#16. My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman
#17. She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now,
Erica Sehyun Song
#18. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
R. Rose
#19. The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.
Julia Golding
#20. There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that fight until they find their way to the edge of reality, as if coming straight out of a dream.
Edwin Fontanez
#21. It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be half asleep the first time he kissed Ellie. For that, he wanted to be wide awake.
Jennifer E. Smith
#23. Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
Erica Sehyun Song
#24. In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
Bruce Coville
#25. Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.
Heather Demetrios
#27. He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.
Erica Sehyun Song
#28. I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That's why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.
Simon Rich
#29. The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind ... about everything that may seem impossible.
P.C. Cast
#30. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.
Heather Demetrios
#31. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#32. Well, in that case, no. I'm not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning 'a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you,' then yes. I am.
Jenna Evans Welch
#33. Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.
Heather Demetrios
#34. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.
Heather Demetrios
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