There are many amazing quotes that most people can be unaware about in YA literature. Here are 25 of them:
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend
“I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
“One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“Life is a gift. Don’t forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.
Inside, though, I was already broken.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
“The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.”
― Holly Black, White Cat
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“Hope is stronger than fear. It is stronger than hate.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates
“Live a life worth dying for.”
― Amie Kaufman, Obsidio
“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
“Courage does not always roar. Valor does not always shine.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
“Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval
“Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
“Everyone is supposed to be a combination of nature and nurture, their true selves shaped by years of friends and fights and parents and dreams and things you did too young and things you overheard that you shouldn’t have and secrets you kept or couldn’t and regrets and victories and quiet prides, all the packed-together detritus that becomes what you call your life.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood
“Your now is not your forever.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you’ve been in before – you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I’ll Give You the Sun
“Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars
“We’ll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds