Top 34 Quotes About Ya Literature
#1. When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.
Lauren DeStefano
#3. In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).
John Scalzi
#4. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
#5. I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
Holly Black
#6. We bite back the things we can't say and we cushion every surface for the inevitable moment when they all come fighting out.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#7. You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no anything delicious.
Tom Lenk
#8. a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.
Anonymous
#9. Had I not become a footballer, I think I would have been a virgin.
Peter Crouch
#10. Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
#11. Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do."
"We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?
Holly Black
#12. It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#13. She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?"
His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally.
Holly Black
#14. You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.
Holly Black
#15. Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world ... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Irving Penn
#16. His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.
Holly Black
#17. Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.
George A. Kos
#18. I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#19. Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
Holly Black
#20. Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.
Ray Bradbury
#21. In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
Holly Black
#22. You have to draw a line. I just think I drew it in the wrong fucking place.
Tom King
#23. Young girls think they know what their hearts desire, what they want the most. When really, we know nothing of love, devotion and utter loyalty. Not until we break our own hearts when we learn that what we desire is nothing like what we thought it would be. ~Papercut Doll
Alexia Purdy
#24. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black
#25. Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
Holly Black
#26. What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.
James Arness
#28. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frahman
#29. There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they'd shared on the train.
Marissa Meyer
#30. The imaginary is that which tends to become real.
Andre Breton
#31. My breasts are so low now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time.
Joan Rivers
#32. Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. "No," she said softly, "Oh no. No."
"Leave me," said Gavriel.
... "Shut up or I might," she told him.
Holly Black
#33. When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Celine Kiernan
#34. The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...
Samantha Lee Churcher
