#ya

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben ↗

— Ron Koertge

#film-star #inspiration #robert-mitchum #teen #ya

Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again. ↗

— Assotto Saint

#haitian-dyaspora #mythology #dreams

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. (“A Dream of Fear”) ↗

— George Sterling

#graveyard #horror #scary #supernatural #trees

I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you? ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#hope #lochan #love #maya #love

And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for myself. For you to be my eyes when I do not have them. For you to be my hands when I cannot use my own. For you to be my heart when mine is done beating. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#friendship

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#loyality #friendship

A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a YA heroine ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality

It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives. ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality

A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts. ↗

— Celine Kiernan

#ya-heroines #equality