Middle Grade Fiction Quotes

#1. Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

Greg Van Eekhout

#2. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.

S.W. Lothian

#3. A head began emerging out of the darkness. It had two large antennae growing out of its forehead, with nothing recognizable as eyes. A mouth in the middle of its face opened in what I hoped was a smile. At least there weren't any sharp teeth.

Mary G. Thompson

#4. Hope is a thing with feathers...

Emily Dickinson

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

Steven J. Carroll

#6. As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.' Then again, maybe poetry's chief use is to inspire us to watch the sun go down.

Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

#7. Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

Jaleigh Johnson

#8. Heart had reasons of which reason knew nothing, the only quote of Pascal's

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.

Emil M. Cioran

#10. It was too late to stop now.
This kiss had damned them both.

Lara Adrian

#11. Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.

Jaleigh Johnson

#12. He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them.

Karen Ann Wirtz

#13. Whoever won the wars in heavens,
He is The God of men today.

Toba Beta

#14. Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#15. Gee, I wonder who you could be referring to?" Owen said.

"I mean you," Erebus said. "I just did not wish to be rude."

"All you've been is rude." Owen muttered just under a whisper.

"Some minds are more capable than others." Erebus smiled at Hugh.

Karen Ann Wirtz

#16. They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.

John Steinbeck

#17. When you cross a challenge that is expansive and deep, you may not even realize when you've come to the other side. That day will come. And when it does, how will you look at your crossing?

Teresa Hirst

#18. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.

Deanna Lynn Sletten

#19. No one is only one thing, my dear.

Nikolas Lee

#20. If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.

Charles Gilman

#21. It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Steven J. Carroll

#22. Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

Maria Testa

#23. 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.

Steven J. Carroll

#24. Junk?" Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn't about to let that pass.

Jaleigh Johnson

#25. What begins will eventually end. The gap between is life.

Debasish Mridha

#26. That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.

Jamaica Kincaid

#27. Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

Diedrich Bader

#28. Here is the rule of thumb: if you aren't giving anything up, it isn't moral and it isn't courage. Stumbles, sacrifices, inner struggle, false starts and wrong turns, conflict with parents and peers-these are some of the signs of the genuine article The way you know it's real is if it hurts.

William Deresiewicz

#29. If he hadn't been following her, she doubted she'd be thinking about him at all. Yet he was still able to ruin her night, and that bothered her. Because she was allowing it to happen. Because she was giving him that power over her.

Nicholas Sparks

#30. And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.

Steven J. Carroll

#31. Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.

Jaleigh Johnson

#32. I think you've forgotten that this place holds a lot more than just
betraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise the
dead! My brother, you have the power to do so
now get off of your butt
and use it!

Richard P. Denney

#33. I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today.

Mary G. Thompson

#34. I definitely want to embrace the relationships I have with the people I love.

James McCartney