Top 70 Ya Books Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Natalie, who was the author of a series of wildly successful Hunger Games meets Gossip Girl YA books about a clique of girls at a postapocalyptic prep school who have to simultaneously fight for popularity and for the survival of the planet - hadn
Doree Shafrir
#3. Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.
Terry Pratchett
#4. In so many YA books the heroine, who's just a regular girl, has to choose between two dreamboats who are both, for no particular reason, madly in love with her, which is probably why these books are labeled fiction.
Paul Rudnick
#5. Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.
Laura Moncur
#6. Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.
Heather James
#7. We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.
Jennifer E. Smith
#8. I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.
Sarah Mlynowski
#9. This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person's life.
Leah Broadby
#10. As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.
John Allison
#11. I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#12. 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
#13. I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#14. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
Priya Ardis
#15. There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an 'idea'. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave.
Leah Broadby
#16. You won't find the tales I bear in any books ... My tales are from the Moon Realm. - Ebb Autumn
Richard Due
#17. 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
#18. I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.
Holly Black
#19. Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#20. You can stand in the middle of a street and let the drops fall on you and feel refreshed. It's like God's little sprinkler.
Travis Thrasher
#22. Home should never be dark or full of shadows and secrets. It should be bright and full of open doors. It should be full of stories wanting to be told.
Travis Thrasher
#23. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
Laura Miller
#24. I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
Kami Garcia
#26. Hearing my brother's words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss - wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#27. Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. "There I'm only myself," she'd said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#28. 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
#29. Writing YA fantasy books is like sneaking out after dark, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in the most exciting world... ever!
Carolyn Hockley
#30. You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself.
'Not yet, not yet.
Holly Black
#31. There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.
Travis Thrasher
#32. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.
Meghan Blistinsky
#33. Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
Priya Ardis
#34. I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?
Holly Black
#35. 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
#36. Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.
George A. Kos
#37. So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we'll just sweep those under the rug or wherever they can go.
Travis Thrasher
#38. 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
#39. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
Priya Ardis
#40. 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
#41. Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black
#42. 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
#43. Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!
Tara Fairfield
#44. Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frahman
#45. 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
#46. One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.
Marcus Sedgwick
#47. I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.
Bella James
#48. This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.
Megan Crewe
#49. I don't like writing romance in my books because that's the turning point of 90% of YA sci-fi/fantasy books and, quite frankly, it gets annoying after a while. The protagonist has more important things to worry about than boys and whether or not they like her.
Meghan Blistinsky
#50. Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.
Travis Thrasher
#51. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#53. I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.
Julie Halpern
#54. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#55. The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
#56. It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.
Erin Bow
#57. A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#58. Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it.
Jodi Meadows
#59. Okay! Here's a quote for ya. My mother said "Don't read trashy books". I loved my mother but I didn't ALWAYS do what she said.
Betty
#60. At this point, caffeine wasn't for pleasure, it was sheer survival.
Stormy Smith
#61. All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#62. You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
Lois Lowry
#63. In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.
Holly Black
#64. Note to self: don't throw things at girls.
Emlyn Chand
#65. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating
Priya Ardis
#66. With the right books, we can change everything.
Rachel Caine
#67. Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.
Oliver Markus
#68. Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
Holly Black
#69. Please,Tana,please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
#70. Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
Laura Kreitzer
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