Young Adult Contemporary Quotes

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed.
Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”
― Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris

“You're one of the most powerful girls in New York now. Do you know that?" Leo added. "If you don't, you're about to find out."
I stayed quiet when I looked back at him.
"But you're also the most vulnerable." Leo pulled out a pair of sunglasses from his back pocket. "Be careful out there, Nicastro.”
― Elora Cook, In the Company of Killers

“Pressing up against him and kissing him is like spinning out onto an undiscovered forest terrain of bramble and jagged cliffs and wildflowers, spanning miles, leaving everything I know behind...”
― Anuradha D. Rajurkar

“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

“Maybe there was still hope for my brain to regain some sense of normalcy instead of replaying the skipping mixtape in my head. Maybe if I could get all of my memories back, then maybe, just maybe, I could feel like myself again.”
― E. S. Rosalynn

“I chose to stay awake, this time lulled by the sounds of a very special mixtape made for me by a very special boy who just might have my heart.”
― E. S. Rosalynn

“Come si fa a smettere, così, di essere terrorizzati all’idea di venir messi da parte e rimanere soli per sempre e non contare nulla per nessuno?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Love, feelings, all that mushy stuff—if it was ever real, it never goes away.”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“And he had promised Theo that he would live. Promised. Promised something he never gave. It was broken, a lie told by fear of regret.
Then again, what promise wasn’t?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“Live... What was it to live? How could we live, when Death was a shadow? How could we live, when we could hardly survive?”
― Bianca Viola, Dreaming of Hiraeth

“In the end, I realize that no one can handle the alters like me. I’ve given them life, after all. They exist to serve me. But I have submerged my essential self so successfully that at times I forget that I exist.”
― John Mondragon, The Clash Inside Me

“If there was one thing Felan had learned, it was that adults always made excuses, and children were always to blame.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium

“You can keep repeating by doing the same thing, the easy thing, or you can do what's hard and evolve.”
― Maisie Kitton, Opium

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

“You can’t decide to leave when you’re already gone; the details aren’t black and white. The weight of it comes in all shades: goldenrod, ruby red, bright as the blue sky.”
― Stephanie Logue, The Right Kind of Light

“And I swear, in that moment, we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower