The YA category is an entirely new one, and seems to have more to do with readability than with age group or theme. The adult YA readers I know do actually consistently say that they are looking for an easy read, a fun read, an unchallenging read.
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.
China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.
Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t get it down on paper it decomposes in my head. This work is composed entirely of compost.
So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
The boy I fell madly in love with – the boy made entirely of goodness and light – has been snuffed out by the bloodthirsty creature that glowers before me.
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.
When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.
She was a Seeker now, marked for life. She had thought this brand would be an eblem of pride, but now it meant something entirely different. She was damned.
We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside," Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .
Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.
Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.
The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.
