Top 55 Ya Novel Quotes
#1. My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
Gayle Forman
#2. I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That's why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.
Simon Rich
#3. I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.
Cassandra Clare
#4. For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
Hallie Ephron
#5. Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow ... And not fireworks, either
Jennifer Donnelly
#6. He looks like the kind of boy who would jump trains, strum guitars, and pass a joint.
Heather Demetrios
#7. In this otherworldly moment I am profoundly grateful to be here, to be alone, to experience this thing that no one has ever experienced and that no one else ever will.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#8. If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about everyone behind their fan.
Heather Demetrios
#9. But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.
Laura Lee Gulledge
#12. I don't like seeing myself on camera." But that's not it
that sounds shallow, like I'm worried I'll look fat or something. "It's like somebody is walking on my grave. TV immortalizes you. The episodes are what my family would watch if I died.
Heather Demetrios
#13. This, I think, is a little glimpse of what life could be like without my family. Home could be a place of laughter and love, a refuge. I'm filled with a terrifying weightlessness, like I've jumped off a cliff, but I know that if I don't look down, I'll be just fine.
Heather Demetrios
#14. Hate is a lot like love. It's warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.
Heather Demetrios
#15. Well, in that case, no. I'm not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning 'a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you,' then yes. I am.
Jenna Evans Welch
#16. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#17. I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home. There was not the slightest smell of something that didn't belong home.
Erica Sehyun Song
#18. If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.
Betty Dravis
#19. [Anger] gave him the soul to keep fighting no matter how many times the world seemed bent on destroying him. He may be a broken young man, but he would never be a defeated one
Hannah Heath
#20. Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together.
Erica Sehyun Song
#21. Tequila! Would you not think fallen angels would be immune to it."
"Fallen, hate that word! I prefer..misplaced
Paul Guildea
#22. My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.
Shawn Stewart Ruff
#23. The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.
Heather Demetrios
#24. We're going to make a tunnel for that ship. We're going to make sure that little lady has every chance in the world to survive. If I get any trouble out of any of ya ... " he paused. "I'll handle it myself, do you understand?" Johan ... "Vital Perception
D.L. Given
#25. I will not be a victim. I will not think like a victim. I am going to avenge all those little girls. I am going to win.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#26. Even Mom doesn't understand how being in front of a camera all the time twists and warps you. How one second it makes you feel unbelievably alive and the next publicly strips you down until all that's left is one big question mark.
Heather Demetrios
#27. I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.
Erica Sehyun Song
#28. In this world, there are only 'things that seem like the truth' and 'things that seem like rumors - A-ya
Suzumu
#29. I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee?
Erica Sehyun Song
#30. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#31. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.
Heather Demetrios
#32. My hobby is to make up these "false stories". The stories that I create impact the public in a completely different form... It's enjoyable when it proceeds just as I expect it to. - A-ya
Suzumu
#33. You can't screw up your own suicide and then expect the universe to give you presents wrapped in the skin of a wonderful boy. That's just not the way it works.
Heather Demetrios
#34. I could have drowned today. If they hadn't been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn't woken up, I would have drowned.
Erica Sehyun Song
#35. Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#36. It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.
Laura Tims
#37. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Erica Sehyun Song
#38. The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
Erica Sehyun Song
#39. Of course, that's how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it's happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?
Tom Xavier
#41. I never get writer's block. My secret ... I have purring cats in surround sound while I write ... best white noise on the planet. R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block.
R. Rose
#42. I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
Carrie Vaughn
#43. The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind ... about everything that may seem impossible.
P.C. Cast
#44. I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
Mal Peet
#45. She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now,
Erica Sehyun Song
#46. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
R. Rose
#47. The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.
Julia Golding
#48. There are tales that rise like the early sun, breathe, and take on a life of their own. There are ones that flow quietly and effortlessly until time forsakes them, but there are others that fight until they find their way to the edge of reality, as if coming straight out of a dream.
Edwin Fontanez
#49. It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be half asleep the first time he kissed Ellie. For that, he wanted to be wide awake.
Jennifer E. Smith
#51. Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
Erica Sehyun Song
#52. 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
#53. Somehow, the pain and rage and confusion of the past eighteen years dissolves until all that is left is this one perfect moment; unscripted, unedited, it's ours and ours alone.
Heather Demetrios
#55. He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.
Erica Sehyun Song
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