Dystopian Ya Romance Quotes

#1. I want to see you naked. I want to touch you. I want you to touch me. I just...want.

Amy Engel

#2. My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.

Siobhan Davis

#3. I just want to be with you. Walk next to you, Ivy, wherever you're headed. That's all.

Amy Engel

#4. Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed.

Laura Kreitzer

#5. Even if I did feel bad for Darian, I wouldn't admit it. Siding with anyone who violates The Protectorate would make me Noncompliant. That would make me almost as corrupt as him. To side with those who violate The Protectorate is strictly forbidden and punishable by a week in the Terrorscape.

Shannon Duffy

#6. The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They're lost in the shadows of the moon.

Laura Kreitzer

#7. Everyone has to die at some point, so the thought of passing on together while holding hands with my one true love has always sounded like an amazing fairy tale. It reminds me of the old Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, and of the powerful love they shared.

Shannon Duffy

#8. I'm sorry, he says. No two words were ever truer.
Still, she says nothing. Once a shield, now her taciturnity is brandished like a blade, carving away his sanity. She's the flaw in the paragon of life - the reason angels choose to dive to their downfalls in fiery comets of stardust.

Laura Kreitzer

#9. I concentrate on the simple act of putting one foot in front of the other and continue moving forward even as part of me is left behind, beyond a fence I cannot breach.

Amy Engel

#10. I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.

Siobhan Davis

#11. Seconds ebb and wane. She's not afraid of her voice anymore, but she's not entirely sure she trusts it. She's seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won't just throw them out there all willy-nilly.

Laura Kreitzer

#12. Why aren't you smiling?" Cameron asks. She picks up the Astropad and stops the video.
"Because this is the beginning, not the end.

Laura Kreitzer

#13. Heaviness coats my brain, and I'm surprised at the turn in our conversation; we're getting into the deep stuff. "Right now, you and me? This feels like fate, if fate can be felt.

Siobhan Davis

#14. Relax," the girl says. She holds out a hand but doesn't touch me. "We're not going to hurt you."
"Yet," the man in the doorway says with a smirk.

Amy Engel

#15. What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil?

Cathrine Goldstein

#16. Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here.

Laura Kreitzer

#17. He's a lovely guy, but there's no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government can't legislate for chemistry.

Siobhan Davis

#18. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.

Laura Kreitzer

#19. I work my way through the rest of my dates, but I'm only there in body. The boys usually give up after the first hour; it's difficult to have a conversation all by yourself. My ratings plummet, but at least my air-time is minimal now, I'm not offering much in the way of entertainment these days.

Siobhan Davis

#20. Time is a thief. A killer. Time is killing him.

Laura Kreitzer

#21. Just in case you're wondering," Gage says, breaking the silence, "this alliance of ours doesn't mean I like you."
"Feeling's mutual." Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Laura Kreitzer

#22. It's degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

Siobhan Davis

#23. Darian murdered them in cold blood. That's a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.

Shannon Duffy

#24. Hello, dinner. It's me, I'm starving. And I know where you live.

Lauren Hammond

#25. I can't - won't do that to him," Summer says sharply. "Or to myself. Besides, your feelings for me aren't real. The Society did this to you. And if they did it to you, they probably scrambled my brain too. I can't trust that any of this is real.

Laura Kreitzer

#26. The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.

Siobhan Davis

#27. You didn't tell Summer about it, did you?"
"What?" Gage scoffs. "Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Laura Kreitzer

#28. Dammit, Gage. What the hell were you thinking?"
"I wasn't," he shouts. "I was upset she wanted to stay, and I lost it."
Ethan scoffs. "Yeah, you did."
"I'm an idiot."
"Yeah, you are."
"Shut up.

Laura Kreitzer

#29. Logan owns my heart, and he always will. Whether he is aware or not. Whether he wants it or not. That much I know with absolute conviction.

Siobhan Davis

#30. He didn't save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.

Amy Engel

#31. You should've told me," she repeats. "Because here's a news flash: You might've wanted to shelter me, but there's nowhere you can hide me that'll keep me safe from what's inside my head.

Laura Kreitzer

#32. Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There's no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is empty with no memory to mend it.

Laura Kreitzer

#33. Remember what I said when I led to Omar and the queen?" I bobbed my head, unable to look away from his jewel-like eyed, shining in the darkness...so much like Chorda's. "That was the lie. Good-bye, Lane," he said and then crept into the darkness.

Kat Falls