1. “We fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
2. “I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials
3. “Love is a contradiction.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
4. “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
5. “How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why
6. “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, ‘I want to go too! I want to go too!’ And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: ‘We are all going.’”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
7. “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
8. “Spoiler alert: Love is worth everything. Everything.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
9. “Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
10. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
11. “But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can’t forgive yourself for.”
― Melina Marchetta, Jellicoe Road
12. “Maybe if people weren't so careless, then nothing would need to be caged.”
― A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
13. “That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
They are the meaning.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
14. “Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host
15. “The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
16. “Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent
17. “When you were born, you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries while you rejoice.”
― David Arnold, Mosquitoland
18. “If you put a frog in some warm water and slowly turn up the heat, he'll stay there until he boils. Kind of like people. We're too lazy to change so we'll just keep doing what we're doing until it's too late.”
― Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles
19. “Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
20. “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
21. “He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
22. “There’s death all around us. Everywhere we look. 1.8 people kill themselves every second. We just don’t pay attention. Until we do.”
― Cynthia Hand, The Last Time We Say Goodbye
What’s your favorite YA quote?
