Top 40 Ya Lit Quotes
#1. 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
#2. That's what I find with any good song, you just have to let it happen. Out of about twenty songs you might write, one of any significance. It might be thirty or forty, but I just keep churning them out and churning them out in hope that one of them will stick.
Mick Ralphs
#4. It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.
Emma McLaughlin
#5. I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.
Robin Zander
#6. 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
#7. His treatment of mechanical problems wasn't divorced from the worldly situations in which they arise, and as a result [John Muir's service manual on Volkswagens] is extraordinarily clear and useful. It has a human quality, as well.
Matthew B. Crawford
#8. Waking up the next morning was torture. I dragged myself to the bathroom feeling like I'd been thrown against a brick wall. Repeatedly. By the Hulk.
K.J. McPike
#9. Your boyfriend smells bad, says Sarah as she sniffs the armpit of the giant sweatshirt.
All boys smell bad I say and she nods her head like we have just figured out something very important.
Amy Reed
#10. The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.
S.R. Crawford
#11. How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you're the CIA.
Heather Cocks
#12. I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.
Larry Ellison
#13. She's a lunatic," says Conrad.
"Absolutely insane," says Guntram.
"Either completely fearless or utterly stupid," says Conrad.
"She's going to fit right in," says Guntram.
Emily Lloyd-Jones
#14. There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.
Bill Condon
#15. I gulped. But, I mean, everyone bends the truth sometimes to be friendly. What's really weird is that I'm the only one who seems to get in trouble for it. Anyway, what could possibly go wrong this time?
Sue Wyshynski
#16. How could I let this happen? How could I let it get this far? I never thought Malyn would have the same feelin's for me as I did for her. I'm dead, for goodness sakes. It's not like we can live happily ever after. I can't live at all.
Janae Mitchell
#17. Three aspects of the self betrayer's conduct always go together: accusing others, excusing oneself, and displaying oneself as a victim.
C. Terry Warner
#18. He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. She was his world now, his priority, the rest of his life could wait as far as he was concerned. As long as he knew she was safe, it would all be okay.
Shayna Varadeaux
#19. I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.
Robert Breault
#20. To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
Marianne Williamson
#21. I let ya in - into my life ... my death ... my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.
Janae Mitchell
#22. I fell back into the sofa, letting my head thump against the wall. Of course, there would be something else to complicate things. I couldn't catch a break with a net the size of Texas.
K.J. McPike
#23. When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
Lois Greiman
#24. Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
Jon Lord
#26. When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf
#27. At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.
Calista Lynne
#28. There was an abyss opening up between them, cutting through whatever they'd shared on the train.
Marissa Meyer
#29. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields
#31. I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to beat Dad at his own game, using the ability he didn't believe I had.
Ha! Take that, you muggle!
K.J. McPike
#32. In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
Bill Dedman
#33. She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.
Holly Black
#34. It's a damn shame that when I finally fall in love that it had to be after I died." He dropped his head and shut his eyes.
Oh, mylanta. Did he just say what I think he did?
He looked back up at me, taking my breath. "What are we gonna do?"
I knew what I was gonna do - hyperventilate.
Janae Mitchell
#35. I wanted to hug him, tell him it was gonna be alright. Tell him I'm not as fragile as I look. But I can't hug him. I can't even hold his hand. I can't tell him it's gonna be alright, because it's not; not as long as he's dead and I'm alive.
Janae Mitchell
#36. Getting your first review is like getting your teeth whitened. You hope it doesn't hurt as much as they say on the internet and you also hope it will leave you with a blinding smile.
Kathy Parks
#37. Sounds - the stretched-out, far-off kind - drift through the halls, and I close my eyes, trying to break them down.
Victoria Schwab
#38. You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.
Courtney Summers
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