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Beautiful YA Book Quotes

inspired by @enchantedwritingdesk - feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes- varied subjects of quotes all considered beautiful written by critics in the realm of Young Adult books of all genres

“You may be born into a family, but you walk into friendships. Some you’ll discover you should put behind you. Others are worth every risk.”

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”

“Don’t get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.”

“We who have means and a voice must use them to help those who have neither.”

“Broken isn’t the same as unfixable."

"Some walks you have to take alone."

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”

“Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today’s tasks.”

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”

“Don’t get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.”

“You should eat a waffle. You can’t be sad if you eat a waffle”

“Making a decision isn’t about knowing every potential consequence. It’s about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction”

“When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.

“The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.”

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change—it comes in small steps.”

“People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.”

“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.”

“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

“Sometimes, when people get treated as less than human, the best way to help them feel better is to simply treat them as human. Not as victims. Just you as you.”

“We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.”

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”

“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

“The funny thing about armor is that it doesn’t just keep other people out. It keeps us in. We build it up around us, not realizing that we’re trapping ourselves.”

“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.”

"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know.”

“Sometimes the best way to find out what you’re supposed to do is by doing the thing you’re not supposed to do.”

“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

“I feel like I need to speak out, because if no one speaks out, if no one says, this is me, this is what I believe in, and this is why I’m different, and this is why that’s okay, then what’s the point? What’s the point of living in this beautiful, great melting pot where everyone can dare be anything they want to be?”

"The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind."

“Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.”

"I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good."

"You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it too, and that's what scares you the most."

“Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.”

"Things were rough all over but it was better that way. That way, you could tell the other guy was human too."

“Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.”

“We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That’s why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.”

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

“Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”

"I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go."

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

“I believed, and still believe, that you can build your dreams brick by brick. That you can accomplish anything with persistence.”

”A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I really hate this expression. I bet fish would totally want bicycles.”

“It was impossible to feel alone in a room full of favorite books. I had the sense that they knew me personally, that they’d read me cover to cover as I’d read them.”

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

"Child, no one is ever ready for anything. I would never doom you to that. What sort of adventureless life would that be?"

"The words were on their way, and when they arrived, she would hold them in her hands like clouds, and she would ring them out like the rain."

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it"

“She delighted in the smell of the ink, the rough feel of the paper between her fingers, the rustle of sweet pages, the shapes of letters before her eyes.”

“It’s amazing how the more you read, the less you know.”

“Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.”

"It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."

"As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

"Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That's all we can do."

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

"I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed."

"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."

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

"We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong."

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?"

"People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And then once more they went back to the world, in the same way they had arrived the first time around."

"I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in by bones.”

"You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

"Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now."

"People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right."

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."

“I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don’t overlook.”

"We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken."

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

“Sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words. It’s all in how you read them.”

"But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way...Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield."

"If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."

“I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.”

"Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. "

“You need to be yourself, but you also shouldn’t feel like you have to fight everyone, even yourself, to be it.”

“I bet you could sometimes find all the secrets of the universe in someone’s hand.”

“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”

"Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true."

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."

“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.”

“We all bear scars ... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.”

"But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

"Just as a river by night shines with the reflected light of the moon, so too do you shine with the light of your family, your people, and your God. So you are never far from home, never alone, wherever you go."

"You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."

"When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly."

"Things are rough all over."

“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in.”

“To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world.”

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."

"All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside."

“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

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madlovenovelist · 1 year

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#bookporn #coverlove

A charming road trip story with a dose of teenage rebellion and coming to terms with grief and loss.

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#Amy and Roger&039;s Epic Detour #book #book covers #bookporn #Casey Carlisle #contemporary #coverlove #Fiction #Morgan Matson #Novel #photography #reading #road trip #romance #Writing #YA #YA Fiction #YA Literature #YA Writing

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smiling-sakura · 1 year

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" Tomorrow will be better . "

" But what if it's not ? " I asked .

" Then you say it again tomorrow . Because it might be . You never know , right ? At some point , tomorrow will be better .

-Morgan Matson , Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

#quoteoftheday #quotes #spilled ink #thoughts #beautiful quote #relatable quotes #spilled thoughts #spilled words #tomorrow? who knows #tomorrow #morgan matson #amy &Roger's Epic Detour #random quote #random thoughts

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vivianstravelblog · 8 months

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Book Review: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

~ Warning! Minor Spoilers! Book Review: Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by – Morgan Matson (2010) ~ REVIEW In 2019, I read “Since You’ve Been Gone,” written by Morgan Matson, and enjoyed it a lot. I rated it a 3.8/5. It’s been a while, but I thought it was time to read another Morgan Matson. I was impressed by “Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour,” which I read on Kindle. Amy is living alone in her California…

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#Amy & Roger&039;s Epic Detour #book review #LilVakaVivLu #Morgan Matson

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sunsetcurveauto · 5 months

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Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

eurydice, sarah ruhl // francis forever, mitski // hamlet, william shakespeare // the worm king's lullaby, richard siken // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // walking home, marie howe // amy & roger's epic detour, morgan matson // the epic of gilgamesh // from june to december - summer villanelle, wendy cope // eurydice, sarah ruhl

outhouse, rachel mckibbens // hamlet, william shakespeare // the great believers, rebecca makkai // a little life, hanya yanagihara // introduction to quantum theory, franny choi // concerning the book that is the body of the beloved, gregory orr // the song of achilles, madeline miller // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // les miserables, victor hugo // eurydice, sarah ruhl

the epic of gilgamesh // eurydice, sarah ruhl // in the name of love, katie maria // the great believers, rebecca makkai // i swear somewhere this works, trista mateer // the time traveller's wife, audrey niffenegger // hamlet, william shakespeare // on the death of summer and baptismal promises, w.r. // amy & roger's epic detour, morgan matson // road to hell (reprise), anaïs mitchell

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dreamonminecraft · 5 months

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I wanna be defined by the things that I love

The Sun Will Come Up - Jen Ament / McKay / dream and patches - @toasty_plum / Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour / reminders - @/from.zainab / Only the Sun - @milktea-green / The Letters of Sylvia Plath vol II / Daylight - Taylor Swift / Dream, from I met Dream in Real Life

#web weaving #dreamwastaken #is this coping?#am i making sense #is anyone hearing me?

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starrbright · 4 months

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Wade The Gallows

December 14. I was going through a lot this day and I had the beginning written down almost immediately. So, bear with me. Two cups of tall coffees for this, damn 🏃🏽‍♀️

800 words. angst. mentions of suicide. all my y/n are fat and of color.

passage above is from Morgan Matson's Amy and Roger's Epic Detour

mdni banner by @cafekitsune

"Hey." The softest of word one could merely utter gently to me and I'd be on my knees. A tug at my heart. I always believed that word is so gentle, well, mostly because I think it's a call for attention, but out of benignity. To pull you out of whatever you may be in but tenderly.

Whenever he says it, I melt. The word alone and from the man I let wield the power over me. I'm nothing. A breath of fresh air to me the second I feel I'm not of this world. That I live when I don't exist for a moment as I'm in his hold.

Such a word.

And the second he utters it twice, finally takes me back to present. The heaviness of his presence surrounds me. I wish it could always blanket me. Forever wash away what bites my being. Yet all is fleeting.

All the more reason for me to feel the shudder that crawls through my skin as his breath blows behind me, with his hands holding me close. To cherish the comfort of his concern through knowing silence before all is said.

"Speak to me." He says. Any other time, I would have been in his grasp to easily command, but of course--this is different. Still and always, with his hold on me, is what grounds me. "Please."

How could I have ever been so lucky?

How did it come to this anyways.

Suppose I have been too far in my head that I hadn't seen him seeing me, even as I stitch myself presentably, he can see all the threads behind in such a tangled and unfathomable mess.

I'm afraid there's nothing I could hide from him even if I want to.

And if there's anything I know truly, is that such blessings we could see surround us, must be honoured.

As his warmth surrounds me more, closing the distance behind us, coldness running over my body for a second from the sensation of being engulfed by his warmth. His arm squeezing me tightly against his chest as he feels it.

His face nestled in my neck, I welcome myself in his embrace, basking in the nothingness for what time could let me have, for as long as he let me.

And as I got myself out again, "Hey." He whispered, and I almost smiled and laughed.

I twined my hand on his where it lays on my stomach as I nuzzle my head against his chest. "Hi." Barely a whisper.

He squeezed my hand, holding me even more on him. "Hi." His hot breath almost could sedate me.

I don't speak after that but just remained loose in his grasp.

He keeps me together.

"Can I carry you to bed?" He asked. I wouldn't even have to answer.

There he kneels before me as I sit on the edge of his bed.

God, he has my heart.

"Forgive me..." I merely spoke, not meeting his eyes. Would it be bad if I hope he'd be angry? "Don't be mad." What a lie.

I'm not ready to see the hurt in his eyes. "I..I've been...thinking of killing myself lately a lot."

His hands holding mine turns tighter, I feel his gaze on me not breaking, nor even falter. "Will you look at me?"

It only takes once for me to listen to his.....plea.

It's not long to see the pain underneath him. How cruel do I have to be to feel solace in them.

Too much a human I have become.

It's only inevitable for him to blame himself but he figures maybe that would be selfish if he thought of himself first before you when it is you who has been hurting all along.

So he does what he think is best--to be there with you. As he always has been.

He doesn't speak, instead graced you with his lips on your knuckles, making each tender kiss last, never letting his eyes stray as he does.

There's something so to behold in the comfort we can offer with silence, taking a part of what breaks us, almost giving us a clean slate.

And I want to kill myself. I do. But I want to hear my brother's laugh more. I want to see my nephew and niece grow up. I want to see my friends more.

And I want to feel him more everyday. To hear my heart bang so loud in my chest as he slowly kiss all of my fingertips, each kiss so soft yet unyielding.

We're only human after all.

"Let me bathe you." He spoke after kissing your knuckles once again.

And there you were in the bathroom as he strips you off just after he drew you a bath.

There you were both under the water, laying against his chest as he's sitting back on the bathhub.

What more could I ask for as he hold my hands, flowing our fingers gently above the water, his face resting softly upon mine, with his heart beating against me, reminding me of my own.

A blessing of the many from being a human in this land.

"Will you let me?" He asks as he slowly free your hands to run them up slowly your arms. And you let out only the faintest of 'yes'.

I want to kill myself.

But I want to feel this more as he gives himself to me as I for him, each time.

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study-with-aura · 2 months

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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Today was a much better day! Also, I was very excited because for the first time since I first learned it a year or two ago, completing the square finally made sense to me. I have no idea how I never understood it until now. All I had to do was divide the x factor by 2 then square it and add that square to both sides of the equation. It's so simple! In other words, I had a lot of fun working on Geometry today because I was thrilled that it finally made sense.

In other news, I accidentally wrote my Biology assignment in my World History notebook. I am not sure how since my Biology notebook is larger than my World History notebook, but it happened. It was three full pages worth of writing, so that is not getting copied over. When I realized what I did, I laughed it off because I was shocked and amused that I had done that.

Tasks Completed:

Geometry - Reviewed completing the square + learned about general equations of circles + practice + honors work

Lit and Comp II - Reviewed Unit 19 Vocabulary + read chapter 29 of Emma by Jane Austen + reviewed figurative language terms + sentence types quiz (non-graded) + read through my next project (due next Tuesday)

Spanish 2 - Learned about passive voice + completed passive voice assignment

Bible I - Read Joshua 22

World History - Looked at a map of the Western Front + read about trench warfare + read a couple of articles (Angels of Mons and Chlorine Gas)

Biology with Lab - Completed global trends quiz + wrote a paragraph about what I would do to help solve one of the world's problems

Foundations - Read the definition of responsibility + completed Lumosity daily brain workout + completed identifying fact from opinion in advertising activity

Piano - Practiced for one hour

Khan Academy - Completed High School Geometry Unit 7: Lesson 3 (already assigned) + completed World History Unit 6: Lesson 3 (part 1)

CLEP - None today

Duolingo - Studied for 15 minutes (Spanish, French, Chinese) + completed daily quests

Reading - Completed Heartstopper: Volume 1

Chores - None today

Activities of the Day:

Extracurricular robotics course

Personal Bible Study (Genesis 31)

Ballet

Variations

Journal/Mindfulness