#adult

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#girls #youth

Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know. To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#young-adult-fiction #end

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man. ↗

— Arby Robbins

#romantic-suspense #science-fiction #young-adult-fiction #dreams

Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#young-adult #urban-fantasy

Hmm, I officially amend my previous statement. Clearly one of them is that stupid. ↗

— Kimberly Spencer

#ya-paranormal #ya-urban-fantasy #young-adult #urban-fantasy

I’m waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours. ↗

— Jodie B. Cooper

#paranormal-romance #quote #romance #sídhí #young-adult-romance

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find. ↗

— Libba Bray

#young-adult #young

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#loneliness #young-adult #fantasy

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

#fiction #young-adult #fantasy

Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which leaves the question as to why you are an exception. ↗

— Alecia Stone

#young-adult #fantasy