55 Young Adult Fiction Quotes

Young Adult fiction has a special place in the hearts of readers of all ages. These stories, often imbued with themes of identity, growth, and adventure, captivate us with their blend of youthful exuberance and profound wisdom. Whether you're an avid fan of the genre or a newcomer seeking fresh literary treasures, quotes from these novels can offer a glimpse into their magic, stir your emotions, and perhaps even change the way you see the world. Join us as we explore a curated collection of the top 55 Young Adult Fiction quotes that have left an indelible mark on readers everywhere.

1. “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).” - Jess C. Scott

2. “Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -Aphrodite” - P.C. Cast

3. “This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did."I frowned, "What's that?""Homework.” - Richelle Mead

4. “I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.” - Lauren Oliver

5. “I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.” - Kate Le Vann

6. “I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.” - Tom Upton

7. “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” - Jess C. Scott

8. “For a moment, I’m captivated. He’s seducing me with his eyes. A nervous flutter swims through my stomach. I can feel my heartbeat in my throat. Pounding. Constricting. I swallow hard.” - Lauren Hammond

9. “Hurry up, he'll be coming back pretty soon!"Lynda spelled with a "y" Corgill, who was two years behind Dara, Mackenzie, and Jennifer, and had just completed her sophomore year, squeezed the hot glue gun into the door lock of the headmaster's office. Shelby Andrews, her accomplice and the newest resident to be accepted at Wood Rose, stood watch."I see the lights of the truck. Hurry! He's coming back! Are you finished?"Lynda gave the metal apparatus one last squeeze, filling the lock with the quick-drying cement glue guaranteed to harden on contact. "Finished."In the soft illumination of the crescent moon high overhead, the two girls, barefooted and wearing dark blue pajamas, ran across the lawn crisscrossed by dark, elongated shadows and dampened by night-cooled air to the maintenance shed where they placed the glue gun on the top shelf where it was normally kept. With their task completed, they quickly returned to the dormitory, to the far end from where Ms. Larkins slept, and crawled through the open window. Within minutes they were back in their rooms, in their individual beds, and sound asleep. The sleep of innocent angels.It would soon be light; and Wood Rose Orphanage and Academy for Young Women would start another day.” - Barbara Casey

10. “Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed into a concerto for violin, the instrument of gypsies, with a prevailing rhapsodic "leitmotif". The final movement had revealed itself when they were at the gypsy camp. And now it was complete.” - Barbara Casey

11. “Without saying anything, Dara gathered her pillow and one of the soft comforters from her bed and carried it into Carolina's room. Mackenzie and Jennifer followed her. They would sleep in her room that night, keeping the ice packs around her, adjusting the fan. One by one they fixed their make-shift beds on the floor, close to each other, and close to Carolina.” - Barbara Casey

12. “Carolina removed an old and creased single sheet of paper, yellowed with age, that was now carefully protected in clear, acid-free paper. She handed it to Dara. "This was folded up in a parik-til, in the box with my birth certificate.""A parik-til?" asked Jennifer."It is a small pouch that is filled with things to bring good luck or blessings." She held up the cloth bag and opened it for the girls to see. "Gypsies use them, but so do Native Americans as well as people from Central and South America and other parts of the world. When I got it, I had no idea what it was or what it meant. I knew the folded piece of paper was old and somehow had to be important to me since my birth parents had included it with the other things they wanted me to have." Carolina stood up and walked over to the window. How well she remembered the overwhelming emotions she felt when she first saw those pages of the Voynich Manuscript in the book she was reading, and then realizing that the ancient script was the same as what was on the piece of paper that had been preserved in the parik-til--her parik-til. "Anyway, as soon as I saw the photographs of some of the manuscript pages in the book I was reading, I made the connection immediately. It was the same script as what was on this sheet of paper that I had been given."All three FIGS crowded closely together to look at Carolina's treasure.” - Barbara Casey

13. “Writing is easy, its marketing that is truly hell!” - L.A. Jones

14. “Creativity is the catalyst to the future.” - Ann Marie Frohoff

15. “Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.” - Cameo Renae

16. “I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.” - Stephanie Perkins

17. “Imagine," she said, after registering, "a whole city of gorgeous Italian guys. They can say anything to me, and it'll be sexy." "You'll be so easy," Rashmi said. "Would you like-ah to order-ah the spa-ghe-tti? 'Oh, do me, Marco!” - Stephanie Perkins

18. “You make obstacle courses and hurricanes, I make T-shirt slogans.” - Kimberly Sabatini

19. “You see, there is a major downfall to living in a tourist town. You guessed it, the constant turnover of new people. You cannot really connect with anyone because no one is ever here for more than two weeks every year, if they comeback at all. The intruders never thought about what happens once they leave. ~ Stella” - Michele Richard

20. “Some justice, though did not deal with kindheartedness or good feeling toward others. No, justice had a darker side, a gray area where it mingled alongside vengeance, and only the wise and pure of heart were able to tell the two apart. That kind of justice was swift. It was only called upon afer mercy and morals fail. It was the darkest form of goodness known to anyone, even the gods, and required only the strongest, most daring men to bring about.” - Evan Meekins

21. “They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits” - Evan Meekins

22. “The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.” - Evan Meekins

23. “There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong” - Evan Meekins

24. “there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” - Evan Meekins

25. “A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.” - Jane Yolen

26. “His question is pretty dangerous for me to try to answer, so I don’t—it continues to hang out there like the stained underwear at a slumber party that goes unclaimed.” - Jen Naumann

27. “There are countless reasons for reading, but when you’re young and uncertain of your identity, of who you may be, one of the most compelling is the quest to discover yourself reflected in the pages of a book.” - Michael Cart

28. “No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."-Inside Out and Back Again” - Thanhha Lai

29. “Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.” - Rw Rivers

30. “I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone... I should've known better. (Rayne)” - Kimberly Brockman

31. “And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.” - Ally Condie

32. “I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything.” - Sarah Ockler

33. “Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first.” - Holly Black

34. “It’s not really wine,” he said. “It’s Diet Coke. And if anyone ever serves you brown wine with a foamy head, send it back.” - Jennifer Echols

35. “But first I had to get through the ironing. It took a lot of patience. I had none. It took forever, and then I had to press the whole shirt again to get out the creases I’d pressed into it.” - Jennifer Echols

36. “Oh.” My dad actually looked sheepish. “It’s one o’clock in the morning and I was going to tell you to shut the monkey up and go to bed. I didn’t realise what was going on in here.”“What’s going on in here?” Cameron asked suspiciously.“Maturity.” My dad backed out of the room and closed the door.” - Jennifer Echols

37. “You can’t keep her.”I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.” - Simone Elkeles

38. “I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.” - Simone Elkeles

39. “You’ve got a big ego, Fuentes.”“That’s not all I’ve got.” - Simone Elkeles

40. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to be a dickhead. Well, I did.” - Simone Elkeles

41. “Three things Marco taught me today race through my mind: boys will lie to your face just to have sex with you, don’t trust any boy who says I love you, and never date a boy who lives on the south side of Fairfield.” - Simone Elkeles

42. “What are you boys doing?” she asks, as if we’re still little kids messing around.“Arguin’,” Carlos says matter-of-factly.” - Simone Elkeles

43. “Sylvia grabs my sleeve. “He’s a looker.”“I know. The problem is, he knows it, too.” - Simone Elkeles

44. “What’s with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.”“I suspect I am a hooligan.” - Simone Elkeles

45. “You look like a hot tamale.”“That’s not really a compliment.” - Simone Elkeles

46. “Listen, I don’t know what the hell happened between you and Marco. To be honest I don’t really want to know, ’cause if I did I’d probably want to kick the shit outta him.”“I don’t need you to protect me.”“What if I want to?” - Simone Elkeles

47. “But it hadn't just been Sebastian who had been watching me. Rather, it had been tribes of merman and mermaids, who had been curious about this newcomer in town that could outswim any school of small fish.” - Keira D. Skye

48. “There is a part of me that no one ever sees.I hide behind a mask of heavy make-up and ever-changing hair and clothing. I try to reinvent myself. It doesn’t work. There are times when I am bone-crushingly sad. I just want to curl into a ball and hide from the rest of the world. But, I plaster on a smile and play the game for my family and friends. They call me a free spirit.I wish I were free. I feel like I am imprisoned by my own mind.” - Julia Crane

49. “I’ve known her long enough to know that this was purely intentional.” He peered sideways at me, judging my reaction. “I like her just fine, but you should watch yourself around her. Tennyson is given to obsession, and her obsessions tend to run toward trouble. It’s kind of a Wyoming thing to push the whole ‘Wild West’ routine to its limits.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

50. “The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

51. “I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble’s neck. “Good boy,” I said. “Trusty steed.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

52. “Meg,” he whispered. “It wouldn’t be real love if there weren’t the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn’t choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That’s why there’s evil in this world, because there’s free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

53. “I could’ve gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered. “My brother died because someone was jealous.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

54. “We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could’ve been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.” - Laura Anderson Kurk

55. “But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear.” - Laura Anderson Kurk