Ya Contemporary Fiction Quotes

#1. I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. 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

#3. I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

Hannibal Buress

#4. The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Irving Stone

#5. The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

#6. Hush, little students, we'll say the word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird.
And if that mockingbird won't sing,
Mama's gonna write down everything.
And so that book won't look the same,
Mama's gonna add a brand-new name.

Daisy Whitney

#7. I don't think I've ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don't think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend."
"How would you introduce her?" I asked.
"I'm just going to say her name," he said.

Daniel Amory

#8. Find things that shine and move toward them.

Mia Farrow

#9. It's as if Mom was expressing herself in a language other than English; a language that Grandma wouldn't be able to interpret simply by looking at the music notes.

Tessa Emily Hall

#10. A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Stephanie Perkins

#11. There's no better way to get to know a person than through their art.

Tessa Emily Hall

#12. Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.

Tessa Emily Hall

#13. I wonder if a time would come when he wouldn't leave after spending thirty minutes in a room with me, but I know it isn't me he is running from. It is her.

Ella Frank

#14. There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published.

J.A. Konrath

#15. If you ask me if I'm okay again, I'm going to smack myself in the face just to punish you.

Rachel Caine

#16. I can almost feel the wind beneath my wings; I can almost taste the thrill of flying away from this small town and never looking back.

Tessa Emily Hall