Ya Heroines Quotes & Sayings

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly. — Sherry Argov

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. — Orrin Woodward

YA heroines can choose to have sex & they can choose not to without either decision becoming the focus of their story. — Celine Kiernan

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about. — Patrick Ness

I've been really lucky to have a lot of cool people and to be around a lot of cool celebrities that I've got to learn from. — Tyler Hilton

YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO! — Celine Kiernan

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

If it has to be it's up to me. — Anonymous

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. — Agatha Christie

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness. — Philip Sington

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks. — Pat Barker

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

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be. — Christie Brinkley

They would face many more hardships in the days to come. They wouldn't be perfect and neither would their marriage. But they could still live happily ever after . . . together. — Jody Hedlund

sucked in his breath, and a slice of time hung in the air between them, a pause where hearts did not beat and eyes did not blink. — Hugh Howey

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