Ya Books Quotes

“I'd like to think of myself as delightfully complex.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It would seem very silly to start a conversation with a common hedgehog. They are not at all like cats, who surely understand the human language.”
― Erin Forbes, The Elementals

“If you don't cry sometimes, you'll end up crying all the time”
― Sarah Harian, Eight Will Fall

“Did speaking a word to the outside truly change what took place within?”
― Sara Ella, Coral

“He was my person, around him I was the best version of me, the me I wanted to be all the time”
― Betty Cayouette, One Last Shot

“I'd rather die here with you than live without a single purpose, wasting away in the dark”
― Sarah Harian, Eight Will Fall

“I used to think the truth would be easy to recognize. Undebatable, like your shoe size or the location of the duodenum, but I don't think that anymore. Now I think the truth is more like one of those shape-shifting villains in a sci-fi movie. It somehow manages to be a whole bunch of different things -- opposite things -- at exactly the same time.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“I never knew how much I needed you until you left.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prodigy of Revenge

“My crystals call to me. You cannot leave without counting your crystals, the internal voice beckons. No. I retaliate against the thought. Garrison, Bryce, Thornton, and Rigel are gone, counting the crystals will not bring them back.”
― Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Queen

“I hope to be bowing in front of you for a long time.” He takes my hand, drops to one knee, and kisses my fingers.”
― Tricia Copeland, To be a Fae Queen

“I don't want the crown. I don't want the throne. I just want you alive.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“Someway, somehow this is destined, Becky. You were meant to come to Lunenburg and move next to me. You. Not just any ordinary girl. The gifted-ghost-seeing girl.”
― Holly Ducarte, The Light Over Broken Tide

“It’s like someone slams me in the back of the head with a rock or something. That’s how hard it hits me – this, like, rage.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“What he says next is going to make all the difference.
"Working or Pa," he says.
"Liar," I say, and walk away.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something

“Don’t be an idiot, Drake. I’m more than capable of enough
poor decision-making on my own,” I reminded him. “I don’t
need you falling victim to my half-assed decisions today.”
A smile tugged at his lips, and before I knew it, he’d had his
arm wrapped around my waist and pulled me closer against
him. I was fast, but he was faster. Much faster, it seemed. “You
don’t get to make my mind up for me, Harley. I’m more than
capable of making my own decisions.”
“Well then, perhaps you should learn to make some good
ones.”
Drake tightened his grasp on my waist and dropped his head
so that our foreheads touched. I felt the heat of his breath on
my lips as he opened his mouth to speak. “Whatever happens
to you today, I’m going to be there by your side. No matter
what.”
“Don’t be a creep,” I teased. Truthfully, though, I actually
wanted him there. It was stupid, and I knew as much. I needed
to retain a distance between us; I needed to keep him safe, no
matter what. And yet, I needed him to be there for me because
I was terrified of what awaited me.”
― Nicole Sobon, Thanks for the Venom

“I want to scream. I want to fling myself down and beat my hands against the ground. This isn’t how things were supposed to be. This isn’t how this story was supposed to end.

It feels like a lifetime ago that my family and I embarked on our simulated mission. I wish I'd known what would happen next. I wish I could go back in time and grab my family and run far away ... all the way to the moon. But, of course, that's impossible.

And now it's too late to run.”
― J.W. Lynne, The Darkness Outside

“Our teacher, Professor Adam, doesn’t know we’re just going through the motions. He doesn’t understand that nothing he’s saying really matters anymore. This classroom, and everything that happens inside it, once seemed big and important. Now it all seems silly and insignificant. I try to pay attention, because we’re supposed to, but my mind can’t focus on the present. It’s too busy thinking about the future. A future where every life in this room is in jeopardy.”
― J.W. Lynne, Above the Sky

“Fourteen-year-old Connor Hansen raced at full speed through the shiny, sterile emergency room hallways of Westley Hospital. He was excited ... and terrified. He was about to do what he had been training for almost his entire life. But if he failed, someone would die. Paramedics rushed toward him, pushing a bright-yellow gurney that carried a bloodied, lifeless man whose heart had stopped beating. It was Connor's job to get the man's heart started again. Connor was a doctor.”
― J.W. Lynne, Kid Docs

“Death rolled in casually, hand in hand with the night. Its purpose hung heavy as a soiled diaper on a lost and starved child. Through the reaching of the fog that crept over the dew-covered ground, its hate slinked along with it and tarnished black every inch it touched. The clouds crawled upon the earth as if the heavens had closed their doors in disgust, leaving mankind to fend for themselves. Even the Gods had turned their backs on the people of Whitwick Gates, the makers of deals with devils.”
― Lanne Garrett, The Seven Year Crow

“Sweet would be the last adjective I’d use to describe him. Arrogant. Despicable. Passive-aggressive. But no, sweet didn’t even cross my mind.”
― Emmanuelle Snow, Cast Away

“Alora,” Phillip said, testing out the sound of her name.

It gave her splinters of shivers, and twinkling specks floated in her vision. She had never drunk alcohol before, but Alora surmised that being in his presence affected her much like spirits might affect one who had imbibed too much.

“Would you care to dance with me, Alora?” Phillip held out his white-gloved hand, awaiting her response.

“I mustn't. Not here.” She shook her head.

“Where then? Perhaps the garden? The moon is bright tonight. The perfect chaperone for a stolen moment or two.”
― Michelle Helen Fritz, A Court Of Broken Promises & Nightmares

“You keep forgetting; I'm a violent man when I'm angry.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“Even though you had everything to lose, you still came for me.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“Next time we see each other, I'll be the most powerful man in the realm.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“While you're worried about people's feelings, I'm worried about people's lives.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“It doesn't matter what you do. You. Will. Lose.”
― Berlyn Hayes

“I've never let thoughts of losing scare me away from a fight.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“I'm going to die, and not as a hero.
As a failure.”
― Berlyn Hayes, Prisoners of Betrayal

“What was art if it did not come from hard work and devotion? If it was not tended to and grown in the careful pockets of one's heart?”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sofi and the Bone Song

“It was eerie how casually people donned the level of polish the Papers offered. Where others fawned over the results of Paper-made glamours, that level of calculated, pristine perfection made Sofi uncomfortable. Humans were messy and complex. It pained her that magic disguised that potential for failure with a fleeting sense of flawlessness.”
― Adrienne Tooley, Sofi and the Bone Song