I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.
[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]
Tags: wisdom paraphrased books beauty belief book children-s-books value basis offense philip-pullman plot young-adult
At Tara in this fateful hour,
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And the fire with all the strength it hath,
And the lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness:
All these I place,
By God's almighty help and grace
Between myself and the powers of darkness!
Tags: fantasy young-adult speculative-fiction
Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
Jane YolenTags: fantasy fiction young-adult
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.
Jodi PicoultTags: young-adult
... I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.
Megan Whalen TurnerTags: young-adult
Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning?
He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant."
You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant."
He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be?
Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.
Tags: fantasy young-adult grieving
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
Germaine GreerTags: life fiction young-adult
You can't doubt so much, Psyche
Francesca Lia BlockTags: young-adult mythology francesca-lia-block psyche-in-a-dress
Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
Libba BrayTags: fantasy young-adult
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.
P.C. CastTags: romance fantasy young-adult aphrodite zoey
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