Young Adult Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings

We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean. — Taylor Rhodes

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals. — Beverly K. Bachel

Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if I do go after it and what if I find no one, and I'm alone for the next sixty years? What then? Huh? Friends and family will get married. I'll be stuck buying gifts. Years pass: children, birthday parties. At dinner parties, I'll be odd man out, forcing people to arrange five chairs around a table instead of four or six. Or, okay, let's say maybe twenty years down the line I meet someone nice and I've already given up on ever finding true love. Let's say the girl is a few pounds overweight, has fizzy hair and an annoying laugh, but at this point, I'm also a few pounds overweight and my hair is thinning and my laughter is annoying. Maybe then the two of us get married, and both our groups of friends will say, 'See I told you that you'd find true love. It just took a while.' And we'll smile, but we'll both know it's a lie-- — Michael Anthony

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person's values are unique, so are each person's dreams. — Beverly K. Bachel

You truly do have the power to reach your goals. — Beverly K. Bachel

You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step. — Beverly K. Bachel

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring. — Beverly K. Bachel

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours? — Beverly K. Bachel

He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted. — Taylor Rhodes

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why? — Beverly K. Bachel

On the seventh of May, Cerise Mar, Erian Mar, and Mikita Mar traveled to the aforementioned manor house and found Lagar Sheerile, Peva Sheerile, Arig Sheerile, and several men in their employ on the premises. Cerise Mar voiced a polite and a nonviolent request that they get the hell off our land, which was refused. — Ilona Andrews

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish. — Beverly K. Bachel

It's up to you to make your dreams real. — Beverly K. Bachel

I'm an air-conditioned gypsy. — Pete Townshend

The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves. — Polly Berrien Berends

I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I've never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever understood the wistfulness of it, and the longing and the frothy, violent bits. The mixed up, rained on parts. The escaped bits that smudge and bleed through. Slowly, I am coming to terms with how vulnerable I am to you, flat on my back like a submissive wolf pup. Daisy petals line your eyelashes, juice of a nectarine flavors your tongue. The side of your mouth twitches, hazy dreamscapes overtaking your mind while we bathe in the glorious autumn devastation. — Taylor Rhodes

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something. — Brian Tracy

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important. — Beverly K. Bachel

I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time. — Eliza Doolittle

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small. — Franz Grillparzer

Books exceed authors' lifespan. — Toba Beta

The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,
a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose
in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;
chose "Angel Band" by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,
ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.
We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginia
knocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.
No one asked why he was so solemn today.
It was warm. It was relatively quiet.
To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.
But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.
No one was ever here long enough to know us.
And we liked it that way. — Taylor Rhodes

The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do. — Beverly K. Bachel

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you'll feel. — Beverly K. Bachel

Life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so. — Albert Camus

I know people who are incredibly successful who still dress the way they did when they were 18, just because they still think that's how they look good. — Noah Baumbach

The crap and the trash of the world. Post-consumer human butt wipe that no one would ever go to the trouble to recycle. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think you should fall in love at least twice in high school. — Jenny Han

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity. — Beverly K. Bachel

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within. — Beverly K. Bachel

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers. — Beverly K. Bachel