20 YA Quotes to Get Through February

Though it’s my birthday month, February is a notoriously dreary month. At least in Michigan. The third month of winter, we don’t see the sun much and you’re just over the cold and snow. This year, the cold and snow hasn’t been quite as bad, but I’m still ready for warmer weather. Not like 80s, because I’m not a fan of hot weather, but like 60s. 60s are perfect. Motivation YA quotes can help us get through it!

Anyway, to get us through the second half of February, I thought I’d share some of my favorite YA quotes. There are some absolutely gorgeous sentences in young adult books, and they need to be shared with the world! I’ll try to add variety, but if there’s a lot of Patrick Ness quotes, I’m not sorry about it. He is one of my all-time favorite authors, after all.

Here’s some inspiration to push through to those warmer spring months!

YA Quotes

“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” – More Than This, Patrick Ness

“Names are not important. It’s what lies inside of you that matters.” – Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas

“Stories don’t always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn’t, did they? That’s one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn’t expect.” – A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

“Thinking about history makes me wonder how I’ll fit into it one day, I guess. And you too. I kinda wish people still wrote like that. History, huh? Bet we could make some.” – Red, White, & Royal Blue, Casey McQuiston

“‘Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,’ Wren said. ‘It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.'” – Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell

“It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.” – A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness

“If you’re going to live, you might as well do painful, brave, and beautiful things.” – Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King

“She wasn’t interested in telling other people’s futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.” – The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater

“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.” – They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera

“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can’t carry on at all.” – Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

“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.” – Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.” – Ignite Me, Tahereh Mafi

“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.” – More Than This, Patrick Ness

“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” – The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas

“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

“The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words.” – The Book Thief, Markus Zusak

“People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, JK Rowling

“People live quiet lives and that’s okay. There’s dignity in that, no matter what you may think.” – The Serpent King, Jeff Zentner

“Sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words. It’s all in how you read them.” – All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven

“In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.” – The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness