Teen Fiction Quotes

“When people march for something they believe in, they speak it, not with words or painted signs alone, but with their feet.”
― Amy Earls, The King's Feather

“All I can say is that I felt alive and didn’t want to think about anything else besides this moment.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“The fact that we have to decide what to do for the rest of our lives at seventeen is crazy. How are we supposed to know?”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“Even in difficult times, there could be good moments.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“It didn’t make sense how someone I used to be so close with could suddenly pretend that I didn’t exist.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“The resplendent chiseled face radiated both kindness and warning. "Don't sacrifice yourself to meet the expectations of others.”
― Jill K Willis

“I loved music. What struck me most about a song wasn’t the lyrics or genre but simply the way it sounded. It’s like when you hear that right song, no matter where you are or what you are doing, the way it sounds just stirs something inside of you. Maybe it’s the melody, the instruments, or the singer’s voice, but for that short moment you forget everything else on your mind and just feel.”
― J. Aleong, A Most Important Year

“The greatest battle in life is between letting go and holding on.”
― Brandon LeMar Bass, How to Overcome Apocalyptic Events

“Millennial Tales" is a collection of short stories that portray our society and its happenings. Every person reacts to circumstances in a unique way and it is this display of emotions that has been the foundation for spinning yarns to weave my stories. Each of these stories is the result of my desire to reflect and comment in an interesting manner on whatever I have seen, heard, or read. All characters featured in the stories are a product of my imagination, and therefore, fictional. Any resemblance to people in real life is purely coincidental. My apologies if some sentiments have been hurt in the process. Happy reading!”
― Viswanathan M

“My grandmother called it bearing witness. She'd sit on the porch with her sister and talk the night away. Sometimes gossiping, sometimes praying. I'd hear them confide in each other, telling each other things I knew I wasn't supposed to know anything about." Maxine hits the button on her keychain to unlock her door. We get in. "I didn't get it as a kid. I mean, nothing got resolved, necessarily, so I though it was silly to just sit and rehash everything that was wrong with the world," Maxine says.
"Yeah, that's kind of depressing," I say.
"But I think what my grandmother was saying is that it feels good to know someone knows your story, that someone took you in," Maxine says. "She'd tell me, it's how we heal.”
― Renée Watson, Piecing Me Together

“More than anything, he wanted to open the window and jump out. He didn't want to hit the ground, he didn't want to roam or walk on those grotty, grimy, secretive streets. Not anymore. He wanted to jump out of the window and fly. It was so unfair. Being chained down here, with all the dustbin lorries and bin bags and dog muck and Costa cups. The birds got to fly away from it all. They came down, hopped about, and then took off when it all got too much. Found a tree. Or a mountain, or a river. Kept going. Higher and higher, further and further away. And singing, all the time, they were singing, and that was because they were free.”
― Chantelle Atkins, A Song For Bill Robinson: Book One In The Holds End Series

“He cried and cried, and his heart beat and leaped and danced and pranced, and for that moment, I thought, my heart is about to run off with his, and I’m not going to stop it. But I did. I stopped it.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I will have you know, Brantley Thornton, that you will see her again. In some world, at some time, your two souls will coincide and abide forever in the stars. Because you, Brantley Thornton, were her entire galaxy. And as she waits for you, she will be counting all of the stars that fill this endless, star-brimmed sky.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“When you look up to the sky that you habitually admire, and observe the stars that drift through the night sky, and you find one star, one star in particular that is gleaming noticeably bright, know that that is me saying hello. Make me proud, my star, Brantley Thornton.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“A know-it-all. He is a know-it-all. Eggs and peculiar. Animated and audacious. Astute, abnormally knowledgeable. An optimist. Pet-whisperer and the definition of a people’s person. A hopeless—emphasis on hopeless—romantic. But that is Caspian Marks. Oh, my. He is my Caspian Marks.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“But now, he would no longer be mine. I was letting him go.
He would belong to this earth, and I would belong to the stars.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I didn’t cry, nor shed the merest of tears. I wouldn’t allow myself to. Though within, deep within, I was cradled in a little ball with my knees tucked into my chest, a puddle of tears surrounding me, as though I was a little girl who could not handle her emotions.
That was true. I could not handle my emotions. Could not handle the weight of the world or the mass of Caspian Marks’ love.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“I feel as though I owe you the entire world, Caspian Marks. All because you were the only reason it felt worth living in.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Yet Caspian Marks stood there and I gave him the benefit of the doubt, and I really do think that it was because my soul was telling me, now this one, this one is special. This one is different. This one... he is a life changer. He is supposed to save lives. He will change your life.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“He was made to mean something, to be someone, to move mountains, touch the moon, and explore the deep blue seas. But funny? Not funny. He was not made to be funny, but right then and there, right at that moment, he was funny.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“The trick to living life is to search for happiness, passion, and love, in anything—and everything—that you do.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Everything about him had to be done to perfection.
And everything about him seemed perfect.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“The stars that inhabited the boy’s eyes flew over to mine and blinded my vision, almost in an attempt to tell me, without really having to tell me, you are special, Brantley Thornton, and you are worth it. Only for a second. And for that second, I got a taste of the reassurance, I got a taste of the amenity and tranquility. And for that second, I did feel special, and I did feel worth it.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You find comfort in the stars, because they are always there, always constant. They are the one thing in the entire world that you know, as long as you exist, will never leave you. Am I right?”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“And Caspian Marks, he was meant to be someone. Someone grand, someone big, someone with power and authority, and I had no doubt in my mind that Caspian Marks could give someone the entire world. He was capable of it. I don’t think anyone would have put it past him. But I would never allow him to give it to me, if at the end of the road, it ever came to that.
My world was ending and beyond restoration.
His was just beginning.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“Brantley Thornton, the world is entirely in your hands. But only if you want it to be.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“You are crazy, Brantley Thornton.” He nudged me on the shoulder as we made our way to the cafeteria. “Absolutely crazy to believe that you are not worth being amazed by.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“With Caspian Marks, you could watch him in amazement.
He was worthwhile. Worth learning about, worth watching, worth getting to know. He was interesting and he was knowledgeable in a worldly way and he always had something—whether it was necessary or not—to say. He was pure and he was kind, genuinely kind. Sincerity encompassed him, warmth brimmed his soul, and tenderness flooded his touch.”
― Braelyn Wilson

“Not that Caspian’s words had an effect on me, but it did feel nice to hear from someone that it was not something to be ashamed about. I didn’t have to be ashamed, and Caspian Marks would have shouted it from a skyscraper if that meant I understood that.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars

“And her eyes, they were still as crystal blue as they were when I met her, and I was sure, as blue as they were when she first came onto this earth. Her eyes were a light in this world, beaming and full, and they continued to burn brightly. The only time they would dare to diminish themselves of their light was when she lay her head to rest eternally.”
― Braelyn Wilson, Counting Stars