Fantasy Young Adult Quotes

“My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“But I will not run. I wouldn't be standing here if I'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Hestia sighed. ‘Stepping inside a mirror is like stepping into Pandora’s Box. It is a world of illusion and fragility. If the mirror is broken then so, too, will be whoever is inside the mirror at the time it is broken.”
― Frank Lambert, Xyz

“If you want me obedient, prince, kill me and carry my corpse.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Hunt the Flame

“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“The king is dead. Long live the queen.”
― Marie Lu, The Young Elites

“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Ducks, embrace me as your king!"--James Herondale.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us together. We understand each other.”
― Erica Sehyun Song

“Dorian offered a lazy grin in return, believe it or not, this ship has an unnatural number of attractive men and women on board. You'll fit right in, and fit in with the cranky immortals, I suppose.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“What if we go on, to only more pain and despair?" "Then it is not the end.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Kingdom of Ash

“If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.”
― Christopher Paolini, Inheritance

“I swam through the thick, smelly, greyish ocean of pressure toward nowhere.”
― Darin C. Brown, The Taste of Despair

“There were moments before moments, in which the world was framed in startling clarity, a defined before hurtling toward a horrible after. Moments in which the powerful were powerless, in which promises became failings.
This was such a moment.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“Why are you crying? This isn't the end. Death isn't goodbye forever.”
― Julie Kagawa, Night of the Dragon

“I looked at Victor, my heart swelling from the emotion. “When I die, please do the same ceremony for me,” I whispered, choking up. “This is the most captivating and emotional event I have ever been part of.”
“I’m afraid you’ll have to ask somebody else for that because if you die before me I won’t survive it.” He kissed the tip of my nose. I gazed at him with so much love that my heart almost burst out of my chest.”
― A.B.Whelan, Valley of Darkness Part 1 & Part 2

“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”
― Walter Moers

“What was the point of a throne and a crown and the power it wrought, if he was powerless?”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars

“And then, this she offered to me, my one truth: "Our language," she said, "is not spoken, but sung.... Not simply words... and grammar... but melody. It was hard... thus... to learn English... this language of wood. For the people of your nation, Octavian, all speech is song.”
― M. T. Anderson

“That unbearable taste. It was as though nothing in the world could ever be the same. Nothing was worth doing. Nothing was worth living for. It was… despair.
I understood. My enemy had both a name and a taste. Despair.”
― Darin C. Brown, The Taste of Despair

“Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed by the flames.”
― Elizabeth Sterling, Retrograde

“I am not afraid," he said to himself.”
― Garth Nix

“She is here amongst us, but she is not alone,” one of the pixie dust angels told the queen of the woods.

“And?” the queen demanded.

“She is with some boy. Both look strange, if you ask me.”

“Strange, how?” the queen asked.

“Strange. You know they don’t look as we do.”

“How do they look?” The queen turned and looked at the pixie angel with her purple eye that sat in the middle of her forehead.

“I don’t know. They have things like the little people in Vanduesa.”

“What things might you be referring to?” the queen’s voice rose impatiently.

“You know those things that the little people get around with.”

The queen laughed, revealing yellowing teeth. “Oh, the things the little people in Vanduesa refer to as legs.”

“That’s it.” The pixie angel did an excited flip, and then nodded her head.”
― Lynette Mather, Unspoken Secrets

“Life is a process, not an endpoint.”
― Sig Nilsson, The Howling of Wind

“In reality, the boy's wand grew a mind of its own and puppeteered him. His arm was straight, pointed right at Lukas, whose wand was also at the ready.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher

“Two beams erupted from their wands, then clashed in the middle of the room, they were the same color as the boys' Self-Cast. Stray bolts flew toward the other students and the teacher. Brown weaved his wand through the air, creating a spectral barrier of protection.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher

“Wilbur winced. His hand burned. Black blood abandoned his flesh.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher

“The torch fell into the pool, the fire was put out, and some bubbles formed, then burst. But, not long after the scent of charcoal wafted through the air, a tiny flame appeared on the surface of the pool. All the fluids underneath it became sticky and black. Soon, the fire spread toward the corners of the room, to the walls, past the pipes.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher

“Magic would seem fun from afar, but there were so many horrors crawling around each of its countless corners.”
― Cedric Ennis, Eyes of the Watcher