1,316 Quotes About Young-adult-fiction

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.

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.

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.

I wish. I dream big. Mama always said not to do things half-assed. What’s the use of a half-ass dream?

Maybe I don't care. Is that adult too? Occasionally not caring? And eating entire box of chocolate-chip ice cream sandwiches to forget you ever cared? For a few hours, then going back to caring and trying? They're SO GOOD!

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...

We held on so long the rising tide didn't lift us;Only in drowning did we let go.

As much as life can suck it always beat the alternative.

I know we’ve never properly met, so you’ve got no reason to believe me, but I think you’re wrong about love. Love isn’t war. Life is the war; love is a truce you find in the middle of all that violence. And I bet there’s someone out there who loves you, even if you don’t know them yet.