#young_adult

She wraps her arms around me and speaks in my ear. Words just for me--the poetry of I love you--to keep me warm in the cold. With them she turns me back from ash and nothing into flesh and blood. ↗

— Ally Condie

#crossed #young-adult #love

We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along. - Roger Sullivan ↗

— Morgan Matson

#young-adults #young-adult

Never let a boy know you’re crazy about him. He’ll lose interest, and then you’ll be a loser. - Molly Packer’s Rules to Getting Any Guy You Want ↗

— Hailey Abbott

#romance #young-adult #young-adult

Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one. - Courtney ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#young-adult #young-adult

Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was starting to get a pretty good idea... ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#young-adult #young-adult-fiction #young-adult

I wants us to be real. I want to be just you and me. - Ryan ↗

— Elizabeth Scott

#young-adult

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#twilight-saga #young-adult #young-adult

... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#young-adult

I need you." Every pore of my being is begging. This is what we do. ↗

— E.L. James

#erotic #young-adult #young-adult

At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#young-adult