Top 52 Young Adult Mystery Quotes
#1. No," I said. "I can't remember doing this."
"Oh," Rena made and gestured dramatically. "You don't remember it. And that automatically means you didn't do it?
Lili Frings
#2. You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.
'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'
James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?
Brandi Salazar
#3. Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
E.J. Stevens
#4. On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.
Sharon Sant
#5. He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon's face that chased him across the sea.
Brooke Burgess
#6. One wrong move, one bad rumor, one mistake, and it's social death row. I'm the latest to be sentenced. Move out of the way, everyone. Dead girl walking.
-Riley
Dawn Klehr
#7. They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.
Teresa Flavin
#8. Red glowing eyes... No one could see her. No one could hear her. No one was coming to save her. Because Death had come sooner than expected.
Humairaa Anseline
#10. He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn't sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.
Christy A. Campbell
#11. I wrapped my arms around my body, pushing away my doubts and indecision for just a moment, and looked out toward the cemetery. "Whatever it takes," I vowed. And as I said the words, I felt a chill run across my neck and a ghostly touch slide down my cheek
Catrina Burgess
#12. My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he's saying. He's my person. He's my home.
Jennifer Walkup
#13. My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave ... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona Panova
#14. Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?
Jennifer Walkup
#15. That's where they found the skeletons. Right where you're standing.
Teresa Flavin
#16. 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
#17. The blank sheet stares up at me, its emptiness like a slap. Those were the last words Ginny ever wrote before she and her family were murdered.
Jennifer Walkup
#18. If my life were a movie ... the title sequence would start out like a typical high school story, but then reveal that something's amiss. There'd be a tight shot, or piece of dialogue, or something that would make the viewer uncomfortable. Something to give them that prickly feeling.
-Dez
Dawn Klehr
#19. What was that feeling in my chest? Regret? Regret that I'd left last night after our kiss--that I'd pulled away before he could know how much I truly wanted him.
Krystine Kelly
#20. I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion
Catrina Burgess
#21. The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.
Teresa Flavin
#22. Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
John Green
#23. I heard her scream one night while she was sleeping.
Heard but didn't see.
When I turned, there was nothing.
No one.
Only darkness.
But I know what I heard.
Melanie A. Gabbard
#24. When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall flat.
Ronald P. Chavez
#25. MISSION ONE ACCOMPLISHED. The next challenge was bringing in online gamers to join him on his crusade. How was he going to convince online gamers to leave the privacy of their virtual world to work with others in the real world?
Harry Doubt
Anne-Rae Vasquez
#26. A small white rabbit with floppy ears and a twitching pink nose bounded out from the thick forest brush. Fingers twitching at his side, James stepped toward the small animal, a nervous giddiness creeping up inside of him.
Brandi Salazar
#27. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate?
E.J. Stevens
#29. Disembodied spirits," said his partner, "are not known to use telephones. Neither are spooks, phantoms, or werewolves."
"That was in the old days. Why shouldn't they change with the times and be modern, too?
Robert Arthur
#30. Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, "You are so much like her."
This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it.
Gwenn Wright
#31. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice
Catrina Burgess
#32. I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.
And buried.
Simona Panova
#33. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
Jennifer Walkup
#34. Shut up!" Finn turned, furious. "Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the seer, the fighter, the fool who takes all the risks, but me, Finn?
Catherine Fisher
#35. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
E.J. Stevens
#36. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. Rivers
#37. Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!
Garry E. Lewis
#39. The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.
Suneeta Misra
#40. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.
Christy A. Campbell
#41. His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. I won't let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.
Airicka Phoenix
#42. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#43. Wicked eyes are not a good prospect for seminary boys. They want a gentle, soft sort of wife, not a wife who looks as though she may sprout wings and carry off the young children of the village. ~Maria "Smythe
Gwenn Wright
#44. The fiery tickle of outrage burned up her throat. "How the hell would you know that when you never gave me a chance?"
Something dark and scorching flickered behind his eyes. "Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.
Airicka Phoenix
#45. Monday nights always brought in the worst kind of crazy. Tonight that crazy came in the form of Paul Cross, town hermit. One of them, anyway. This was the Pacific Northwest.
Tara Kelly
#46. Sir, no amount of money, no matter how vast, could induce me to stroll, perambulate, promenade, or engage in any form of locomotion with you whatsoever. Good evening.
Jennifer Donnelly
#47. I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.
Jennifer Walkup
#48. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are
Catrina Burgess
#50. What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?
Jennifer Walkup
#51. It could have been worse. He could have said he wasn't a 'dessert person' and then I would have been forced to jump out of a moving car.
Saba Kapur
#52. After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.
Rodman Philbrick
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