The morning was full of sunlight and hope.
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Kate Chopin
Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.
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Ally Carter
You, on the other hand, wish to know things. And no one can forgive a girl for that.
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Jennifer Donnelly
Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger.
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Jennifer Donnelly
I do not fear pain.
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Victoria Aveyard
More Quotes By Tim OBrien
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap...
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay...
The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.
