{"quotes":[{"text":"It’s normal to like guys who seem to like you; it’s normal to want to be loved.”Kami raised her eyebrows. “I’m sixteen,” she said. “I’m not looking for love.”“Oh,” said Liz. “Uh, what are you looking for?”“Cheap thrills, mostly,” said Kami.","author":"Sarah Rees Brennan","tags":["love","sixteen","teen"],"id":969,"author_id":"Sarah+Rees+Brennan"},{"text":"Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall.'The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.","author":"Richelle Mead","tags":["humor","teen","young-adult"],"id":2871,"author_id":"Richelle+Mead"},{"text":"You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us.","author":"John Green","tags":["john-green","kids","teen","turtles-all-the-way-down"],"id":5508,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"Then his lips were on mine and I lost myself, overwhelmed by the surge of Trey’s emotions as they flooded through me. I kissed him back wanting to forget my fear of being discovered of putting him in danger and focus only on how good it felt being in his arms. After all relinquishing some control was a sacrifice worth making if it meant I could continue to live in this fantasy with Trey. But the dreaded tingling in my teeth started up again and I reluctantly pulled away.","author":"Heather Jensen","tags":["aurora","fantasy","paranormal","romance","teen","vampire","young-adult"],"id":8588,"author_id":"Heather+Jensen"},{"text":"It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.","author":"Becky Albertalli","tags":["first-kiss","lgbt","love","simon-spier","teen"],"id":9560,"author_id":"Becky+Albertalli"},{"text":"Her heart was telling her to trust him, but it wouldn’t be the first time that that foolish muscle, there in the middle of her chest, had betrayed her.","author":"Mirella Muffarotto","tags":["2014","coming-of-age","coming-of-age-love-story","destiny","epic-love","fate","fiction","love","love-and-romance","love-hurts","love-stories","love-triangles","novel","romance","romeo-and-juliet","sports-themed-ya-na","star-crossed-lovers","teen","teen-drama","teen-romance","teenage-love","ya","young-adult","young-adult-contemporary","young-adult-fiction","young-adult-novels","young-adult-romance","young-adult-series","young-love"],"id":10597,"author_id":"Mirella+Muffarotto"},{"text":"The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people, its structures, or its history. As such, they had no inclination to defend its invisible borders from declared enemies within or without. They desired only escape from this small village, which each viewed as an existential prison built upon the antiquated expectations of their parents and their parents’ parents. And because of their invisible bondage, the young of this town were possessed by a quiet rage. But this rage laid torpid and inert within them, dulled to sleep by the tired repetition of nothing happening over and over and over again, day after day after day.This is the story of one of those young people, and the terrible things that happened to her, and the terrible things she did as a result.","author":"P.S. Baber","tags":["angst","small-town","teen","teenagers"],"id":11023,"author_id":"P.S.+Baber"},{"text":"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.","author":"Bernard M. Baruch","tags":["eleven","honors","lovely","sixteen","teen","years"],"id":12094,"author_id":"Bernard+M.+Baruch"},{"text":"I don’t know if it was just me making things up in my head but after the fear in their eyes had gone what replaced it was like a sad kind of wondering. A wondering of where the old me was hiding. A wondering about where the old me had gone to. It was like I had suddenly been taken over by someone else and they could see the old me had fallen away for good.","author":"Kerem Mermutlu","tags":["coming-of-age-stories","teen","young-adult-fiction"],"id":12221,"author_id":"Kerem+Mermutlu"},{"text":"Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.","author":"Shaun David Hutchinson","tags":["aliens","bullying","death","depression","history","life","loss","love","milkshakes","space","stars","suicide","teen","ya"],"id":13152,"author_id":"Shaun+David+Hutchinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":448,"pages":45,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}