Young Adult Contemporary Quotes

#1. Cinna slid down the bar, sassing three groomsmen and
winking at a fourth on her way.
"I totally get why some animals eat their young," Pepper said.

Jamie Farrell

#2. I don't know. I guess I'd just like to see you live one day for yourself.

Jessica Brody

#3. The house was the color of baby vomit.

Pixie Lynn Whitfield

#4. Let me just unsubscribe to my own mind already, because I don't get any of it.

Jandy Nelson

#5. It's just ... how do I put this? Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine turning down something that's so much harder for someone like me to find.

Liz Czukas

#6. I am light and stardust in his hands.

Sierra Abrams

#7. I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.

Brian Joyce

#8. True, but Little Sister is patient and she's always watching.

Jenn Cooksey

#9. What do I look like? A blonde rolodex for boys who've lost an archery match with cupid?

Jenn Cooksey

#10. 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

#11. Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.

Brian Joyce

#12. 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

#13. The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#14. What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway?

Brian Joyce

#15. I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty."
"Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started."
"Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.

Megan Duke

#16. You naked in my bed is even more unbelievably beautiful than I thought it would be ... and trust me I've thought about it. A lot.

Abbi Glines

#17. Trace was just one of those guys who caught your attention no matter if you had a ring on your finger. He would be hot 'til the day he died. Seriously.

Chelsea Lynn Charters The Gossip Web

#18. You know there is a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you loved me and didn't realise

Kirsty Moseley

#19. Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.

Petra March

#20. I think it's time you got a summer love of your own until lover boy sees he need to ditch Gina.

Dana Burkey

#21. He wasn't kissing me like I was going to break; he was kissing me like he thought he would break without this kiss.

Christie Cote

#22. It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

Gayle Forman

#23. I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days.

Brian Joyce

#24. I find it rather depressing that the people you love most in this world can also be the same exact people you hate with fervor. But it can happen, trust me.
It was the f***ing story of my life.

Christina Channelle

#25. She looks so broken, I don't want to hurt her more.

Dannielle Wicks

#26. Starting from this day, I will create a chance of happiness that doesn't depend on perfect conditions. My options may not be infinite, but my possibilities are endless." -Bliss Aston

Umi Allison

#27. You know-portraits are odd things." "How do you figure?" I asked. "Well at the time, that portrait told the whole story. It told the truth. We were a family-a happy family. Now that same portrait just looks like a lie.

Brian Joyce

#28. Society gets by from the help of its citizens.

Brian Joyce

#29. 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

#30. In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

Brian Joyce

#31. That night, he laid in his bed thinking about all the possibilities. They came like waves in his mind. At first they came slow, then gradually built up speed, cresting into full on dreams, until finally, they broke onto the shore with all of their reality. First dreams, then nightmares.

Brian Joyce

#32. Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level.
James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss.
Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine.
James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume.

Kristen Tracy

#33. A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.

Katie Cotugno

#34. She was crazy, and she was unpredictable, but she was also generous and open-hearted and like no friend I'd ever had before.

Sara Barnard

#35. In his arms, I slowly unfolded like a love note read in secret.

Jill S. Alexander

#36. Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy

Jennifer Gold

#37. Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you're young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is - it's all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.

Brian Joyce

#38. I'm so tired of crying.
I'm so tired of losing.
I'm just so tired.

Jessica Brody

#39. Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.

Brian Joyce

#40. Words, to me, are the same as an instrument is to a musician. I never know where this typewriter is going to take me until I begin. I never know what I'm feeling until I read over what I have written.

Tessa Emily Hall

#41. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.

Estelle Maskame

#42. I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.

Abbi Glines

#43. Don't think or judge,' I said. 'Just listen.

Sarah Dessen

#44. 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

#45. I'd skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you'll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

Kody Keplinger

#46. Because even if we were struggling, we had goals. It didn't matter that we weren't there yet. What mattered is that we both experienced setbacks, and full-blown failures, but we got up, brushed ourselves off, and kept going-and were making the best of it.

Jamie McGuire

#47. Congratulations," she said. "You win.

Megan Duke

#48. Blaire, even if all we do is kiss or just lay there and talk, I'm okay with that. I just wanted you up here. Close to me.

Abbi Glines

#49. You said my name and my heart went rogue

Zandile

#50. He felt torn. He wanted her to feel safe with him, but he also wanted her to feel the sort of heady excitement that any young girl should feel when they fall in love. He wanted to give her everything she craved, and he was not quite sure he could do it.

Emily Arden

#51. His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.

S. Elle Cameron

#52. While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#53. Sometimes,
you don't wake up.
But if you happen
to, you know things
will never be
the same.

Ellen Hopkins

#54. How have we lived in the same place for all these years and only just met?

Because we weren't meant to meet then. This is our now.

Micalea Smeltzer

#55. Character isn't something you talk about; it's something you show through your actions-through your every day habits.

Brian Joyce

#56. 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

#57. She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?

S. Elle Cameron

#58. 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

#59. Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Abbi Glines

#60. I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

Abbi Glines

#61. Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more.

Brian Joyce

#62. I remember ... watching that separation of sea and sky ... and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#63. She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.

Megan Duke

#64. Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.

Brian Joyce

#65. He knows I've seen something in him. Something I recognize, only because it exists in me too.

Siobhan Davis

#66. 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

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

J.A. Konrath

#68. But there's nothing.
My life is one big meaningless cycle of nothingness.

Jessica Brody

#69. It's like I became so obsessed with doing things right, I forgot to enjoy them.

Jessica Brody

#70. I should walk away. That would be the right thing to do. It would be the smart thing. But I can't, because I'm Taylor Caldwell, the girl who cuts.

S. Elle Cameron

#71. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

Brian Joyce

#72. I can't help to feel like they're staring at me, too. Judging me. Deeming me not good enough. Not pretty enough. Not cool enough.
And to be honest, sometimes I wonder if they're right.

Jessica Brody

#73. Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing?

Christie Cote

#74. They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.

Goldy Moldavsky

#75. There are moments in our lives that define the people we will become in the future, like a symptom before an ailment, or the catalyst before the cure.

Brian Joyce

#76. Dear Diary:
I have a confession to make: I've become a total idiot over French pastries.
They're my new favorite food.
My new-found edible souvenir.
My new favorite sin.
Dunkin Donuts is so yesterday.

Kimberley Montpetit

#77. I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.

Megan Duke

#78. Hate was the blazing beauty that consumed the world in its flames. Love could never consume anything but the heart of a fool.

Christina L. Barr

#79. 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

#80. Clearly a woman of good taste, she was reading a historical romance. I loved historical romances. And contemporary romances. And paranormal romances. And young adult romances. Pretty much anything in front of the word romance would do it for me.

Darynda Jones

#81. 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

#82. Fair enough ... No inhaling battery acid," I smirk. "We can't breathe battery
acid, can we?

M.A. George

#83. Perhaps all adult life was an attempt to keep alight the fires that burned when you were young.

Barney Norris

#84. I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time.

Ashley Earley

#85. I liked to count my blessings in a world where they were so few, and he was one of mine.

Christina L. Barr

#86. Our evening-long tango of stares had my head spinning.

Jennifer Comeaux

#87. It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.

Randy Alcorn

#88. Dark haired guys are so, so much better.

Estelle Maskame

#89. You're too young to be so old.

Leslea Tash

#90. You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

Rainbow Rowell

#91. I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

Jandy Nelson

#92. 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

#93. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Brian Joyce

#94. It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

Christie Cote

#95. My mouth dropped open, because even if it wasn't my best friend, I knew the guy who was presently rubbing the short stubble on his chin. The only new thing about him was the little scar on his left eyebrow. It was Gabriel Green, known to me as Gabe the douche bag. Great!

Stephanie Witter

#96. Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.

Christina L. Barr

#97. 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

#98. I love you when you're happy.
I love you when you're sad.
I love you if you're angry,
And I love you if you're bad.
No matter how you feel,
I love you all the time.
Oh my sweet, dear baby,
I love you all the time.

Carla J. Hanna

#99. Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

Stephanie Witter