"I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass."
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"I'm not ready for you to kill me yet, Jacob Black. You'll have to be patient."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. "
— Rick Riordan

"There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book."
— Philip Pullman

"Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed churchgoing ways(...)Let me get out of here, and I’ll . . . I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one. "
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"'Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.'"
— Jane Yolen (The Books of Great Alta: Comprising 'Sister Light, Sister Dark' and 'White Jenna')

""The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – "

"Plumbers?"

" – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman."
— John Green (Paper Towns)

"It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it."
— Carrie Ryan

"No one who is young is ever going to be old."
— John Steinbeck (East of Eden)

"'What’s your name?' she asked, and surprised herself. But for some reason, she wanted to know.
Dean’s brother—he hadn’t been just some nameless Bad Guy Number Four. This vampire wasn’t,either. He had a name, a history, maybe even people who cared what happened to him.
'My name is none of your business,' he said, and continued to stare out the window, even though there was nothing but blurry brick out there.
'Can I call you None for short?'"
— Rachel Caine (Carpe Corpus)

"Look after my heart - I've left it with you."
— Stephanie Meyer Eclipse

"The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.'"
— J.M. Barrie

""At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.""
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact

"It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?"
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

"... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one."
— Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief)

""About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.

"Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.

He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff."

"It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write.

"Books are boring," James said as he wrote.

"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books."

From A Certain Slant of Light"
— Laura Whitcomb

"You can't doubt so much, Psyche

- Eros
Psyche in a Dress
"
— Francesca Lia Block

"Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning?

He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant."

"You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant."

He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be?

Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.""
— Caroline Stevermer (A College of Magics)

"(page 267) Ms. Moore: There are no safe choices. Only other choices."
— Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty)

" "Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."
"
— Tom Upton (Just Plain Weird)

""If you want someone to tell you what to think"..."you will never be short of people willing to do so." pg 460 Fly By Night"
— Frances Hardinge

"Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.

[DEA Administrative Law Judge - 1988]"
— Francis Young

"The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile."
— Alvin Toffler

"It was Alec who spoke first. "What's this?" he demanded, looking from Clary to his companions, as if they might know what she was doing there.
"It's a girl," Jace said, recovering his composure. "Surely you've seen girl before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one.""
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

""Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.
Clary twirled the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?"
"Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I"m afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-"
"SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
"Sure it is. You just don't see the humor."
"Jerk." Clary sighed, leaning up against the wall."
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
— Maya Angelou

"All that matters is what's inside...as long as your outside is wearing the tiara!"
— Aspen Brooks

"Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven't . . ." her voice trailed off and she looked away from Jason, hoping instead to find her words among the falling raindrops. "Do you ever feel like you aren't the person you're supposed to be? That you could be a different person - and have a better life - if things had been just a little different?""
— J.M. Reep (From "The Spring")

"Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it nor stay in it forever.
"
— Henry Van Dyke

"Yes, I Have Made Mistakes. I'm Young, I Will Make Countless More. It's What You Learn From Your Mistakes That Matters"
— Nicole Stacey-O'Reilly

"'Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.'

'Yes,' murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; 'and when they grow older they know it.'
"
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings)

"night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. night calls to thee; hearken to her sweet voice your destiny awaits you at the house of night!"
— PC Cast

"Be thou an example."
— The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ)

""I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness." "
— Dodie Smith

"Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man."
— E.B. White

"Esperanza leaned around the side of the truck. As they rounded a curve, it appeared as if the mountains pulled away from each other, like a curtain opening on stage, revealing the San Joaquin Valley beyond. Flat and spacious, it spread out like a blanket of patchwork fields. Esperanza could see no end to the plots of yellow, brown, and shades of green. The road finally leveled out on the valley floor, and she gazed back at the mountains from where they'd come. They looked like monstrous lions' paws resting at the edge of ridge. "
— Pam Muñoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising)

"They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America."
— Stephen King (Carrie)

"Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity."
— Tedd Arnold (Rat Life)

""Meanwhile," Simon added, "I wanted to tell you that lately I've been cross-dressing. Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. I thought you should know."...
"Simon!" Clary shouted, and seized his arm
"What?" Simon looked alarmed. "I"m not really sleeping with your mom, you know. I was just trying to get your attention. Not that your mom isn't a very attractive woman for her age.""
— Cassandra Clare

"Even should we find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it nor stay in it forever. -Henry Van Dyke; from "The Shack"-
"
— Henry Van Dyke

"This quote was written by the Forth Teacher "Samuel"

"You are responsible for everything that you give out to others in your Earth Life that is Negative. If personal responsibility were taught at a Young Age maybe Souls would think twice before they act. The Greatest Reward you can ever receive is when you have cleared your slate for Good."
"
— Samuel