Young Adult Literature

Quotes & Thinkers in Young Adult Literature

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"I've never made a flight in an airplane, and I don't know that I'm particularly anxious to. I would, though, like to take a trip in a . Bring one out here some time, won't you, Doctor Eckener, and give me a ride?"

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison"

"When I started writing, it was a way to understand my own adolescence, and what came out was a revelation about my own teenage years..."

"That's just great," someone said under his breath. "We've got a bloody queen mother alien living with us. She could blow into a million new buggers at any moment."

"Edward Lear Home Page at NonsenseLit.org"

"All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart."

"Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give."

"Strangewood was never silent. It was never supposed to be. There was such life and color in the wood and in the creatures who lived there that silence would be tantamount to death. It was very silent in Strangewood."

"The thing is that underneath we are all humans…Everyone has people they love and people they want to protect, everyone has things they are afraid of or that cause them pain."

"Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed."

"I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?"

"My biggest problem in these ACA debates? I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people."

"Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now."

"Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy."

"I have final say on the plot and characters, she has final say on the words and descriptions."

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all."

🇩🇪Wilhelm Busch (pastor)

Art

1832–1908

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

"There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds."

"He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever."

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🇺🇸Jess Rothenberg

Literature

"You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently—but there's not much of a point. It's not like it'll change anything. So really, why worry?"

"It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance."

"What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse."

"…I would have been a much better-adjusted adult earlier on if I’d read a single book about real queer people when I was growing up."

"Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him."

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

"If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours"

"I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you."

"It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since."

"A person can find anything if he takes the time, that is, if he can afford to look. And while he’s looking, he’s free, and he finds things he never expected."

"Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it’ll be okay because of God."

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