Top 87 Young Adult Novel Quotes
#1. If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness
#2. I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.
Elizabeth Olsen
#3. With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike.
Mindy Kaling
#4. Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.
Marie Rutkoski
#5. Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
Caitlin Flanagan
#6. I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.
Paul Di Filippo
#7. I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.
John Green
#8. [A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.
Richard Peck
#9. As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.
Stephen Colbert
#10. Great. My life has suddenly become a young-adult novel.
R.J. Gonzales
#11. I am not only the person who wrote and sold a novel while raising a houseful of biological and foster children; I am also the person who wrote a horrific young adult novel that never sold and gave up on a foster child I couldn't handle - an experience that still haunts me.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#12. 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
#13. My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.
Rick Yancey
#14. 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
#15. Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
Mike Dickenson
#16. Do not fret, my brother, my child. For the buffalo will roam the plains once more.
P.J. Parker
#17. My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake?
I think you're a good person.
Svetlana Chmakova
#19. Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
C.G. Rousing
#20. That's where they found the skeletons. Right where you're standing.
Teresa Flavin
#21. I just wanted to buy a spy novel. I didn't want to be in one.
Jeffrey Westhoff
#22. She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.
Megan Duke
#23. 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
#25. I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
Destinee Hardwick
#26. Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within.
Larry Itejere
#27. Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM!
Erica Sehyun Song
#29. Speak up and speak clearly. I want to hear what you have to say because it matters. Let's listen to each other and respect one another's opinions. Although, they may be different, wisdom allows us to be responsible for our own feelings and actions.
Felicia Johnson
#30. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
Deanna Lynn Sletten
#31. Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn't going to stop us from being together.
Erica Sehyun Song
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
Michelle Gagnon
#35. I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.
Erica Sehyun Song
#36. He's made me believe I'm worth love of the liquid kind, you know, the kind that seeps to all my damaged parts.
Zandile
#38. It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.
Steve M. Robinson Jr.
#39. My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.
Shawn Stewart Ruff
#40. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#42. 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
#43. Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE
debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Press
Caroline Bock
#45. People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
Lois Lowry
#46. When you touch a man's body, he will enjoy the moment, when you touch a man's heart he will remember it forever.
Dixie Waters
#47. Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.
Svetlana Chmakova
#49. This is a time of change," the Shaman said. "This is a time of enormous power.
P.J. Parker
#50. 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
#51. For whom do you cry, my son?" the Great Spirit asked.
"I do not know."
"Yes, you do.
P.J. Parker
#52. There was no point getting all worked up about a kiss. One kiss does not a relationship make. I'd kissed boys before, and usually by the next day the kiss had evaporated like a dewdrop in the sun.
Gayle Forman
#53. The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
Brian A. McBride
#55. 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
#56. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed
Gayle Forman
#57. I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.
Erica Sehyun Song
#58. In life, if a door closes, all you need to do is move to the window; as long as your whiskers can clear the space you will move through effortlessly. quote by T.G. the Feline Goddess of Everything and Everyone
R. Rose
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit ...
Megan S. Johnston
#63. 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
#64. The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.
P.J. Parker
#65. Rainbow Cloud strode forward like a hunting cat with the same strength of height and broad shoulders, the same rolling gait as First Light's father. They were indeed the same man, split in two at birth, so the family might be rewarded by twice the skill in hunting each brother possessed.
P.J. Parker
#66. Do you understand the meaning of the soil beneath your feet?
P.J. Parker
#67. I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.
Stephanie Perkins
#68. There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean's horizon.
P.J. Parker
#69. The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.
C.G. Rousing
#70. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.
R. Rose
#71. 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
#73. You said my name and my heart went rogue
Zandile
#75. Congratulations," she said. "You win.
Megan Duke
#76. The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.
P.J. Parker
#78. A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.
John Green
#79. 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
#80. We must love our slaves, Papa. We must love them as hard as we are able.
P.J. Parker
#81. With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the news of the second coming. I hear it. And I fear it.
Brian A. McBride
#82. It's gonna take me a lot longer than a year without you to get over you.
Estelle Maskame
#83. I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.
John Boyne
#84. West Point - The Key to the Continent and Independence.
P.J. Parker
#86. We the People . . . The People of the Long House.
P.J. Parker
#87. We live in a complicated society, Bromley - one that is changing and which does indeed need to change. But do you not think any change must begin within our own family gathering?
P.J. Parker
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