Verse Novel Quotes

“Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love -”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.)”
― Madeleine Kuderick, Kiss of Broken Glass

“there's
this golden moment
when the sun
licks through the gauze
fluttering at my window
warming my eyes to open

this golden moment
when I'm not yet awake enough
to remember
that there are things
I would rather
forget”
― Sonya Sones, Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy

“Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“Be yourself.
You're
better than a bully
any day.”
― Kathryn Apel, Bully on the Bus

“The heart is one of
the strongest muscles
in the body and
you're all
heart.
!”
― Kathryn Apel, On Track

“Reading helps me
escape
to another world -
any world that I want
to be in.”
― Kathryn Apel, On Track

“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over

and I am only a little afraid
of the night.”
― Stasia Ward Kehoe, The Sound of Letting Go

“...but she took all of the stereotypes
and put them in a chokehold
until they breathed out the truth.”
― Elizbeth Acevedo The Poet X

“Faith isn't for the faint of heart.
Both courage and naïveté are required.
To grasp its art,
you must look the other way
when all the omens seem to say
you will nog get what you desire,
so, though it may be a cliché
I put my faith in fire.”
― David Elliott, Voices

“alone, nudity being carved
from exposure, yet detached
from its source, like Rafael’s need
for the one baring his body
for the thrill of disappearing
inside himself, to come out
on the other side
as someone
else.”
― Neil Czeszejko, Between His Teeth, Clenched

“That you were
already inside me and two lives
cost the body its soul. That I couldn’t afford
to let you go.”
― Neil Czeszejko, Between His Teeth, Clenched

“Our Prophet ﷺ showed KINDNESS while he was treated with hostility,
He showed LOVE and COMPASSION to everyone, even to his enemy.
Sent by the MOST MERCIFUL to the world as a MERCY,
He is the BEST of creation, the most noble man,
Described by his wife as a WALKING QUR’AN.
Follow his SUNNAH as best as you can...”
― Walead Quhill, Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.

“Allah is CLOSER to you than your jugular vein,
He knows your DEEPEST thoughts; he feels your pain.
Any problems, RAISE your hands to Allah and complain,
The most compassionate, the one who LOVES you greatly.
Allah is more MERCIFUL than a mother is to her baby,
HOLD on to the QUR’AN and the SUNNAH tightly.
A guiding LIGHT, shining brightly...”
― Walead Quhill, Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.

“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, The Sound of Letting Go

“Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.”
― Jeannine Atkins, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science

“The kids
in my class
are like a jumbo pack of
assorted party lollies –
they’re all different,
but I like them
all.”
― Kathryn Apel, Too Many Friends

“but most importantly,
she should be remembered
as always working to become
the warrior she wanted to be.”
― Elizbeth Acevedo The Poet X

“Mom and Dad called me Moonlight, the brightest thing in their sky on their darkest nights. It always sounded so pretty, but the real me is more rough around the edges.”
― Elayna Mae Darcy, Still the Stars

“Muhammad ﷺ is for us, an EXAMPLE and GUIDE,
The GREATEST Prophet, in him we take pride.
Spread GOODNESS wherever you go, but make sure,
That in your heart, your intentions remain PURE.
Take yourself to account, before you’re accounted for,
So that in this life and the next, you’ll be successful forevermore.”
― Walead Quhill, Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.