Top 81 Ya Contemporary Quotes
#1. 'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.
Jennifer Armentrout
#2. I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.
Morgan Matson
#3. If you want to recreate yourself in a new image, you must embrace your inner vixen.
Rachel Harris
#4. I smiled sadly and whispered, "I would have taken a bullet for you, too, you know."
"I know," he whispered gruffly and lifted my chin, "and that pisses me off and turns me on at the same time.
Shelly Crane
#5. Meet Logan Jackson, smug, self-entitled, proud, arrogant, trust-fund brat.
Ali Harper
#6. Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I was in fact smarter than everyone else, regardless of whether or not that was true.
Kristy Berridge
#8. down. There just was no way someone that good looking was getting made fun of. Plus guys could sleep with a whole team and it would be okay. Talk about double standards.
J.L. Beck
#9. There's a word for an author who doesn't give up ... published.
J.A. Konrath
#10. I did it. Who leaves a message like that? Who is so paranoid that they have to be so cryptic? If this wasn't day one of my Summer of Nothing, I might be in a hurry to figure this out. but first: breakfast.
Julie Halpern
#11. That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.
Estelle Maskame
#12. Arkadia wrapped her arms around his waist and laid her head upon the muscular cliff face he called his chest.
Dzintra Sullivan
#13. That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.
Estelle Maskame
#14. I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eyebrow raised, I knew he did. And this time, I was the one to look away. Because I remembered. I remembered everything.
Jenny Han
#15. Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun.
Tessa Emily Hall
#16. The lights disappear,
The elevator shudders,
Stalls,
Quits.
All in the same nanosecond.
All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think,
And Travis so close I can't breathe.
Elana Johnson
#17. Morning, my fellow Hokies! Your favorite class president here, welcoming you to another new year filled with change, excitement, and discovery ...
So far, I'd say she has it about right.
Rachel Harris
#18. Lies are like a treadmill with no off switch. You have to keep walking or you'll fall off.
Iris St. Clair
#19. Never fear, spa products are here."
Grinning, she kicks off her shoes and pads over to the recliner. Squeezing in on the other side of me, she pinches my face in one hand and studies it with puckered lips.
"Kara, if you're trying to kiss me, I should warn you, I'm nothing but a heartbreaker.
Rachel Harris
#20. There's no better way to get to know a person than through their art.
Tessa Emily Hall
#21. After a kiss like that, he should know I'm the one.
He should be down on his knees begging me to marry him and have his little Hottie babies.
Jillian Dodd
#22. Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.
Heidi R. Kling
#23. No. No, no. No.
I did not just do that. I can't believe I just did that! Mason and I have been friends since third grade, and I have never looked at him like that. Other guys, yeah, but not him. It should be in the Bible. Thou shalt not check out thy best friend.
Sarah Tregay
#24. 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
#25. I thought three minutes and twelve seconds would undo me.
Now I'm trapped.
I cannot survive in this elevator.
Not with him,
Not for much longer
Another second.
Elana Johnson
#27. I miss kissing you. I dream about it, Aly, and I'm at the point where I might just go insane if I can't do it again.
Rachel Harris
#28. That girl is just plain crazy," Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when they were handing out social skills she was still in the line for shoes.
Dzintra Sullivan
#29. I wondered if this was how it felt to sell your soul to the devil. I bet there were awesome cookies in hell, too.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#31. You are on my side," she says.
"What side is that?" I ask.
"The winning side," she says, and smiles. "The team of the artists."
"Who are we playing?"
"The barbarians," she says. "We are always playing them.
Jenny Hubbard
#32. Sometimes,
you don't wake up.
But if you happen
to, you know things
will never be
the same.
Ellen Hopkins
#33. Life's messy," he agreed. "But sometimes amazing things can happen, even when it seems like it's all falling apart.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#34. Just when we thought everything was going to be okay, we all fell apart.
Jenny Han
#35. At a normal high school, having class outside on a gorgeous May day is usually pretty awesome. It means sitting in the sunshine, maybe reading some poetry, letting the breeze blow through your hair ... At Hecate Hall, a.k.a. Juvie for Monsters, it meant I was getting thrown in the pond.
Rachel Hawkins
#36. Hi, I'm Justin." Then, unable to help myself, I shot Peyton a sly grin and added," Or, as someone people like to call me, "Baseball Stud.
Rachel Harris
#38. This stupid infatuation had to stop. I was Trina Clemons, future valedictorian of Sky Ridge High. I had plans. Plans that didn't involve any detours with slacker party boys who wore shoelaces in their hair.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#39. And I want to press my palm against his chest to feel it beat, to prove he's really there.
But we cannot touch.
Stephanie Perkins
#40. I need you because I'm in love with you, Eden, and I have no idea how I'll ever get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#41. Normally I didn't attend my father's funerals unless I was scheduled to sing, but it wasn't every day Dad buried a rock star.
Linda Budzinski
#42. You've got nothing to be worried about," he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.
Estelle Maskame
#43. 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
#44. But in case you can't find her let me draw you a map with some crayons, you go past leave us the fuck alone, and turn right at fuck off, and oh look you're in slut country.
J.L. Beck
#46. I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.
Dana Burkey
#47. With his blond hair, broad shoulders, and perpetual tan,
Bryce looked like a California underwear model. Not that I'd thought about him in his underwear.
Much.
Chris Cannon
#48. I hear doghouses are total aphrodisiacs."
I laughed aloud, even as a small shiver ran down my spine. Thus was the power of Justin Carter. I looked into his eyes and said, "With you there, hell yeah they are.
Rachel Harris
#49. What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.
Dana Burkey
#50. We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
Estelle Maskame
#51. I turn my head so that he doesn't see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.
Kasie West
#52. Be careful. He uses that line on all the girls.
Ali Harper
#53. I don't know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.
Sharon Sant
#54. 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
#56. And then he winked.
Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and that'd been a creepy mall Santa.
Veronica Wolff
#58. I was not being mean. Mean was her mother giving her the name Bernice Woodward.
Ryals, R.K.. Cursed (The Thorne Trilogy Book 1) (Kindle Locations 66-67). . Kindle Edition.
R.K. Ryals
#59. Until it has scared you with its endlessness, sky is just sky.
Jenny Hubbard
#60. She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.
Claudette Melanson
#61. Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.
Ali Harper
#62. holding grudges is like letting someone live rent free in your mind
J.L. Beck
#63. You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.
Courtney Summers
#65. Maybe I should put an ad online. Honor student seeks overly self-confident young man for fake relationship. Terms negotiable.
Chris Cannon
#66. 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
#67. Tall, dark, and hot leaned against a pillar, watching me as I took my place in line. Tousled dark hair went every which way on his head. His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment. Maybe even with me.
Veronica Wolff
#68. He wanted to break up with me in the cafeteria? Fat chance. I leaned toward him and touched his arm in a girlfriend sort of way. "If you planned to stage a public breakup with me, you can forget it."
Amusement showed in his hazel eyes. "Think you can stop me?
Chris Cannon
#69. The only way, I thought to myself, that this could get any weirder would be if it turns out he has that dead body's head on ice where in the basement, some ready for transplantation onto Cindy Crawford's body as soon as it becomes available.
Meg Cabot
#71. Aly smiles nervously. "So where you taking me?"
By the grace of God, I choke down the response I'd like to give - back to my room - and force a nice, lighthearted smile as I back out of her long driveway.
"All will be revealed in time.
Rachel Harris
#73. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#74. Yes, Trina. Really, I'll show up to help you. Really, I'll bring a friend. Really, I'm not a total dick. I just play one on TV.
Lisa Brown Roberts
#75. Boys are gonna come, and boys are gonna go. Unfortunately, some friends may even do the same. But dessert, ya'll will never let you down.
Rachel Harris
#76. I probably should just shut up and enjoy it." I take a deep breath. "But I'm starting to think maybe I'm just not built that way."
As soon as the words leave my mouth, I know it's the most honest thing I've said in a long time.
Rachel Harris
#77. 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
#78. And I want to kiss you every day, but not just because I'm saying goodbye.
Melissa Pearl
#79. Can guys get PMS?"
"More like MBHS," Gabi replies. "Male Butt-Hole Syndrome. It's an epidemic.
Rachel Harris
#80. In fact, I've been thinking; lips like that have got to be soft as a rose petal. You wouldn't mind if I tested them out, would ya, sweetheart?
Codi Gary
#81. 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
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