Ya Contemporary Quotes

“At a normal high school, having class outside on a gorgeous May day is usually pretty awesome. It means sitting in the sunshine, maybe reading some poetry, letting the breeze blow through your hair...At Hecate Hall, a.k.a. Juvie for Monsters, it meant I was getting thrown in the pond.”
― Rachel Hawkins, Demonglass

“Maybe that's what living is--recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”
― S.K. Ali, Love from A to Z

“Observable Fact: I don’t believe in magic.
Observable Fact: We are magic.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Yay, science.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Kate's mother gets straight to the point. "You'll go to that cult over my dead body."

Lost in The Ark p. 5”
― Val Agnew, Lost in The Ark

“The immensity of the infinite unknown was formidable, but for that brief moment, she did not feel small. With her sisters and a warm drink and flickering firelight, she only felt . . .

Possibility.”
― Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

“Love hurts because you give a piece of yourself to someone.”
― Sharmin Akter, Mission Rider

“You'll go to that cult over my dead body.”
― Val Agnew

“Avani rolled her eyes. “You read too many romance novels.”

“I read exactly the right number of romance novels,” Rani returned. “You’ll see. This family needs me.”
― Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

“Nothing is too much to ask for because time is so precious and fleeting and because anyone who has ever truly loved you should want the most for you and because you should want the most for yourself, too.”
― Maya Prasad, Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things

“I am made of magic.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“What's the point in fighting battles if you're bound to lose the war?”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“I haven't even had sex yet, and I'll be damned if I lose my virginity to her. To be honest, I doubt she's had sex either, but I doubt she's dying to lose it to me. No pun intended.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“So long as she lives forever, I'll always be home.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“I hug her again to keep my eyes from overflowing with tears. Everything in my life just feels so far away. I don't know how I got here, and I don't know where I'm going. All the things I thought were certain and forever aren't anymore. I wanna live in this moment until the end of time. I wish the good things didn't have to come with the bad.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams

“She's like a parasite on my entire life, feeding on everything good I have.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“She's probably planning on taking me out to a field and shooting me. Then she'll completely dismember me and ship my body parts off to my friends and family. When they take her to trial, she'll plead insanity and get away with it. Everyone will feel so bad for her, the poor sick girl who went crazy and killed her boyfriend. She'd end up a martyr somehow, and everyone would forget about it. Shit's messed up, man.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“It's like an orgasm in my mouth. Wait. That came out wrong.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“Who knew that it felt so good to touch yourself?" she asks no one in particular.

"Just wait until you're alone," Ale says and winks.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“I've never understood that about medical professionals; they always think they're the experts because they have years of training and experience. In some ways, they are, but at the same time, no one knows their own body better than the patient. They're so quick to ignore things people say are bothering them because it doesn't line up with whatever diagnosis they're dead set on.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“His laugh echoes off of the walls and lands right in the center of my heart.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“All I know is that kissing him feels like I've just figured out what it means to be alive.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams

“He makes me feel scarlet, bubbling with passion for him and all things new.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“He could ask to devour me, and I would serve myself on a silver platter.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“He is everything good in this world.”
― Gabriel Alexander Williams, Cancer Perks

“And so she closed her eyes
and the world was dark
with bright patches that filtered in
through her lids
she saw stars and nebulas
and felt the warmth of a sun
close to her”
― Maya Prasad, Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses

“Because every once in a while, when the clouds
are thickening and wishes are crowding you with what you think you need, you’ll forget what it’s like just to feel the spray of the sea on your face, to hear the rustle of pines, to inhale the scent of lavender from the
nearby farm.”
― Maya Prasad, Wild Wishes and Windswept Kisses

“We hold onto the people we love, even when they've hurt and disappointed us multiple times.”
― Sharmin Akter, Mission Rider

“That's how families were. They looked beautiful and put together at a distance, but upon closer inspection, even beauty had its flaws, and family was never perfect.”
― Sharmin Akter, Mission Rider

“I might have known. Nobody ever does want me. I might have known. It was too good to
be true. Dreams never last,” I sniffed, “I should have known that even you wouldn’t want
me.”
I plopped down on a nearby bench and tried to swallow my sobs. Matthew and Marilla
glanced at each other confused. Oh, why did I always let my hopes run away with me?
Nothing would ever change. Who would ever want a homely, emotional, sixteen year old?”
― Hannah Beth