Top 100 Teen Fiction Quotes
#1. What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#2. Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.
Robin Wasserman
#3. Super-fast, he reels me into his arms, holding me in a tight embrace. "I can't lose you, Sadie. I just can't. Every day I die a little more inside.
Siobhan Davis
#4. It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.
Siobhan Davis
#5. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#6. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#7. Is it possible to fall in love at thirteen, because I think I just looked into the eyes of the girl I want to look at forever.
Danielle Rocco
#8. I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.
Linda Kage
#9. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.
Kev Heritage
#10. Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.
Jennifer Loiske
#12. I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#13. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#14. Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.
Harley Brooks
#16. My mind wanders and I drift off into La-La Land. I dream about Thalassic City. About opportunity. And second chances. About actually living.
Siobhan Davis
#18. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#19. If you don't beleve in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Ridley Pearson
#20. I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#21. Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon.
- Persian proverb
Samantha Combs
#22. There was no escaping what I had become, the nothing girl...again.
Aubrey Moore
#23. We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. I think we're moving at the pace we were set to move in. That, not everyone lives to the same expectations in life and love. And we can only hope that the love we feel is the love we were meant to share. -Angelic Pierce
A. Lee Dright
#27. Stop talking like we are done for. Like this is the end. We are getting out of here. I don't know how, but this is not how our story ends.
Siobhan Davis
#28. If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn't have chosen me."
"Maybe I didn't choose," she dared. "Maybe it just happened.
Megan Duke
#29. Love only knows your heart, not your fucking address
Danielle Rocco
#30. A craving to crawl out of my skin hits me like a bullet to the chest. It's not a new sentiment. It's an urge I feel at least once every hour. A potent desire to be anyone but myself. To live any life but this one.
Siobhan Davis
#31. I recognized Meg's swirly handwriting and crooked my index finger into the side of the envelope to rip it open. There was no letter. Just a picture.
A picture of Meg holding a picture of me.
The word HOME echoed through my body like a rifle shot.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#32. Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds.
I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea.
"He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'"
"That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin.
Terri Clark
#33. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. Rivers
#34. I feel myself collapse inside as if the life force has been sucked out of me.
Siobhan Davis
#36. If you get sick again? Alec, stop hiding behind that. We start dying the day we are born. If everyone thought the way you do, no one would ever go after their dreams. There would be a ton of unhappy people moping around.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#37. It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero
Luke Edison
#38. No," Scott's voice cracked, "Carrie look at me."
Carrie bit down on her lip and tried to focus on the healing process. The usual sensation of the energy flowing through her finger tips was a weak haze and it completely disappeared when Scott whispered, defeated, "Carrie, please.
Julia Barkey
#39. I didn't even notice that my shoes were full of mud by the time I reached the rocky shore. There was ragged yellow police tape tied to some branches, dancing in the wind. It was as if the tape was waving, welcoming me back to place where I would have died.
Richard P. Denney
#40. It's a very private moment when your heart breaks. I was thankful we were alone. I knew I couldn't keep her, but I would always do anything to protect her.
S.G. Holster
#41. A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.
Teresa Flavin
#42. He wasn't kissing me like I was going to break; he was kissing me like he thought he would break without this kiss.
Christie Cote
#43. I'm saying I love you, Cami. All of that was as real for me as it was for you. I'm asking if you'll stick this out beside me. I'm willing to lose my badge and even be dishonorably discharged if that's the case. I just don't want to lose you.
Lacey Weatherford
#44. How do you know I'm any different from the broken, beaten slave you found over seven years ago? - Corin
Claire M. Banschbach
#45. He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.
Kayla Krantz
#46. Next to the first Henry and Meg, Henry had written, "Promise?"
Well, that genie's out of the bottle and there's no stuffing her back in.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#47. I have a curse.
I HAVE A GIFT.
I'm a monster.
I'M MORE THAN HUMAN.
My touch Is lethal.
MY TOUCH IS POWER.
I am their weapon.
I WILL FIGHT BACK.
Tahereh Mafi
#48. 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
#49. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.
Siobhan Davis
#50. All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#52. Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.
Ava Dellaira
#53. I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.
Siobhan Davis
#54. There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
Teresa Flavin
#55. As a man, I instantly became aware of the gold in her hair, her height measured against mine, and how easily she'd fit in my arms. ~Ren
Colleen Houck
#56. He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight.
Kelly Stevenson
#57. ... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.
Jenny Lynne
#58. The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
Teresa Flavin
#59. The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.
Kimberley Griffiths Little
#60. I have a girlfriend, Kayn. Her name is Chloe. She just doesn't know it yet, He smiled; he couldn't help himself, he knew it irritated her to no end. (The Children of Ankh series)
Kim Cormack
#61. Writing is something you Do and not discuss. Talk is cheap, wishes are free and a fool is included with every purchase. So spend your time wisely.
Jaime Reed
#62. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?
Laura Anderson Kurk
#63. Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.
Milly Silver
#65. Even if that is the truth," Derkein said, "what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead?
Alecia Stone
#66. I'm not going to be caught unawares again," Haydn argues. "Loving her made me weak. Foolish. And it was totally pointless anyway, because she has only ever loved you.
Siobhan Davis
#67. Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.
Gwenn Wright
#68. He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.
Kayla Krantz
#69. He shrugged. "It's a little too late for that."
"I know, but if you just explained to her, maybe she'd still let you--"
"I already ruined my guitar. I broke it last night. I just...I just don't want to talk about it.
Melissa M. Futrell
#70. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Ridley Pearson
#71. I might've found a way to cure them." Crystal said in a jumble of words.
"Cure them? Permanently?"
"Yes sir."
He thought about this a moment before speaking, "You've got two weeks, can you do it by then?"
"That's plenty of time sir, thank you.
Julia Barkey
#72. I found I could only glance at him for tiny moments and then I had to look away. He was perfect enough to hurt my feelings for a long time, and I wanted to let him.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#74. It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.
Saba Kapur
#75. I want to tell you that I love you," he said. "But I'm afraid you won't remember it tomorrow."
"There's no way I would forget that.
Megan Duke
#76. I know I should look away but I can't. It's as if my eyes are superglued to him.
Siobhan Davis
#77. Evan had heard it all before. A paradise underground, made for things like the worm in front of him. A place where Evan would forget he had ever been human, forget he had a mother, maybe even forget his own name. This thing did not remember its own, Evan was sure of it.
Mary G. Thompson
#78. Your dad and I have been talking."
"You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.
Tom Upton
#79. Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you.
Tessa Emily Hall
#80. To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.
Nancy B. Brewer
#81. There is no law stronger than that of
magic. - Kian
Kailin Gow
#82. But desperation does funny things to a person. Makes you grasp for any sliver of hope. Makes you throw rational thought and logic out the window. Makes you act in ways you would never have imagined possible. Turns strong men into weak. Honest men into liars.
Siobhan Davis
#83. Dying of tetanus might be preferable to spending any more time in your company...
Jessica Gadziala
#84. If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.
Megan Duke
#85. Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written.
Tessa Emily Hall
#86. I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#87. What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.
Anna Carey
#88. One honorable young man can make all the difference ...
Robert L. Beck
#89. No, not really. But ... " Okay, I couldn't help but gloat a little. "She likes me."
Samedi didn't even look at me. "Well of course, you've had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.
Lia Habel
#90. Haydn's instructions are imprinted on my brain much the same way Logan's face is imprinted on my heart.
Siobhan Davis
#91. I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.
Siobhan Davis
#92. To the attention of the New Fiddleham Police Department: You've got my middle-C, and I would like it back.
...
Please return Jackaby's tuning fork. He's getting even more obnoxious than usual.
William Ritter
#93. I wouldn't change a thing. I want you. I'll always want you.
Siobhan Davis
#94. I'm terrified of learning the truth. About my mission. About Axton. About who I really am, and what I'm capable of doing. I'd rather stay in denial. Because if there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that I'm not going to like the truth of my apparent new reality.
Siobhan Davis
#95. The waiter repeated, The cocktails are from Mr Seadon. He asked me to tell you that he thought you'd enjoy them. They are called Secrets.
Milly Silver
#96. Broad shoulders fit snugly under his white shirt, and taut muscles flex in his arm as he grips a tray. He's not a muscle-bound freak though, thank God. I don't like that "I have boulders in my biceps" look that a lot of guys seem to favor these days.
Siobhan Davis
#97. I brought you something. It's my sister's coat. It
gets cold in Nashville in the wintertime.
Nancy B. Brewer
#99. On the best nights, he'd appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn't had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me, and he looked older than us and stronger than us.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#100. I started picturing Rens smiling face, the warmth of his touch, the slight curl of his lip before he kissed me. Every happy memory came rushing back through the blackness illuminating it in brilliant color.
S.G. Holster
