100 Quotes About Fiction

Reading is one of the most captivating and rewarding ways to pass time. Yet, there are many people who don’t read often and most likely won’t even consider themselves a reader. If you fall into that category, we’ve got some great fiction quotes for you that will get you hooked and make you want to continue on your journey of reading.

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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) William Goldman
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Everything I know, I know because of love. Leo Tolstoy
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We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love. Tim Farrington
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She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have never gotten so lost in a kiss before. And then, the space between us explodes. My heart keeps missing beats and my hands cannot bring her close enough to me. I taste her and realize I have been starving. I have loved before, but it didn't feel like this. I have kissed before, but it didn't burn me alive. Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it's an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever. Jodi Picoult
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of...
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Arthur Conan Doyle
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Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different. Laurell K. Hamilton
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever Germaine Greer
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Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it. Paulo Coelho
The trouble with fiction,
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The trouble with fiction, " said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. Aldous Huxley
If something is going to happen to me, I want...
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If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there. Albert Camus
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told...
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Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.. Unknown
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V shook his head. “Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How’d you like that anywhere near a female you loved?” Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage’s body.“ We’re going to need a shitload of steel, ” the human muttered. J.r. Ward
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Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me. J.r. Ward
Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is...
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Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid. Kim Harrison
Easy. Peasy
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Easy. Peasy P.c. Cast
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when...
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Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. Kim Harrison
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A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line. Kim Harrison
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Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate. Kim Harrison
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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it. Jorge Luis Borges
The only moral it is possible to draw from this...
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The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable. Douglas Adams
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Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras. Herman Melville
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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. Douglas Adams
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Listen." Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..." She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart. Carroll Bryant
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed,...
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I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. Kevin J. Anderson
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;–in that of poets of amusement–in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition, –and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. Jeremy Bentham
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the...
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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. Tim OBrien
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of...
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There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth. Doris Lessing
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You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid. John Waters
Tis strange, -but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger...
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Tis strange, -but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold! George Gordon Byron
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A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. Tim OBrien
Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so...
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Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring. Charlaine Harris
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
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The truth was stranger than the official fiction. Dean Koontz
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Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth. Adam Levin
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction....
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But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication...
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Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'' For fun?'' Fun! ' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction. John Fowles
There is fact in every fiction and truth in every...
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There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie. Krisi Keley
The best fiction is true.
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The best fiction is true. Kinky Friedman
It did not seem odd to Max that what he...
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It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind. Pauline Clarke
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
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Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. Frederic Raphael
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it...
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One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable. John H. Alexander
It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.
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It's not an easy thing to tell a true story. Allen Morris Jones
Fact and fiction are different truths.
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Fact and fiction are different truths. Patricia MacLachlan
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There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory–the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements–the sun, the water against the swimmer's chest, the vague quivering pink which one sees when the eyes are closed, the feeling of being swept away by a river or by sleep. These second degree objects can be combined with others; using certain abbreviations, the process is practically an infinite one. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word, a word which in truth forms a poetic object, the creation of the writer. The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them. Jorge Luis Borges
Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up,...
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Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety. Dick Peterson
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I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:' All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane. Mary Rose OReilley
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they...
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo
You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it...
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You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love. Richelle Mead
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake...
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Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. Richelle Mead
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No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret. J.D. Robb
And then there are the rare ones who know love,...
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And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust. Kim Harrison
But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I...
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But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite. Richelle Mead
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In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions–we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come. Amor Towles
Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab...
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Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell, ' he muttered, and I almost giggled. Kim Harrison
Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.
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Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes. Richelle Mead
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Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together. Richelle Mead
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Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise me for my "all lowlifes, all the time" seduction policy. I wanted to come home and tell someone about my day. I wanted to go out dancing on the weekends. I wanted to take vacations together. I wanted someone to hold me when I was upset, when the ups and downs of the world pushed me too far. I wanted someone to love. Richelle Mead
Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction
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Dreams only come true if youpoint yourself in their direction Tina Reber
Ivy! ' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told...
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Ivy! ' I stammered, then glared at Kisten. 'You told Ivy? Thanks a hell of a lot. Want to call my mom next? Kim Harrison
Raven?'Yes?'What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding...
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Raven?'Yes?'What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out! Ellen Schreiber
I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear.
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I have you with me, and I'm terrified you'll disappear. Jodi LaPalm
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And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled. From an empty sky. L.j. Smith
You look like the vamp who bled the cat.
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You look like the vamp who bled the cat. Kim Harrison
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You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried. Kim Harrison
I'm not the same person I was before, and I...
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I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again... Jodi LaPalm
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I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan) Keri Arthur
It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not...
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It's about time! It's supposed to be a ritual, not a marathon. Karen Chance
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Big lots, ' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear, ' was David’s answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement. Kim Harrison
A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out...
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A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face. Robin Schone
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction...
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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. Benjamin Disraeli
His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered...
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His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it. Kim Harrison
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I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck. Maggie Stiefvater
This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is...
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This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that. Carroll Bryant
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. Oscar Wilde
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The love that we feel for each other is not about the worldly things, those materialistic possessions, or great looks either. It’s about the breath I hold at your sheer sight. It’s about the constant drumming of my heart when you come near me, making me aware of your control on me, and how my senses crave for more of you. My love for you is ‘you’, and it will still take me eternity to figure out more of it!. Ankita Chadha
Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her...
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Mary approaches her before she is able to reach her station. "Hello Lily. Get anything special for Christmas?""Just the usual." She answers. "Shattered dreams. Carroll Bryant
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He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his chest. Broken, I feared even the slightest movement would cause pieces of me to snap off and fall to the gritty pavement. Jodi LaPalm
What comes from the heart will go to the heart
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What comes from the heart will go to the heart Renae LucasHall
It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it...
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It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay. Lara Adrian
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Lily looks back down at the necklace in her hand that Kavita had given her. "It must have cost a fortune."" It did." He confirms. "Though not nearly as much as you're worth." Lily looks up at him. "Don't say that. You hurt me everytime you speak. Carroll Bryant
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I don't know who he was, " Kavita flat-out states, "but whoever he was he sure did a number on you, didn't he?" Mary leans forward to ensure he would see her deviant stare. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe I did a number on him?" Kavita leans in closer as well, and with that same deviant expression, "Yes. I have. Carroll Bryant
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The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel coming to the virgin Mary with a spray of lillies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Turks. Carroll Bryant
He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And...
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne. Philippa Gregory
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Jika kita menyukai sesuatu, bagaimanapun keadaannya, kita hanya akan tetap menyukainya. Rasa suka itu tidak akan terpengaruh oleh faktor lain. Suka, ya, suka, dan akan begitu walau dilihat dari sudut pandang mana saja. Jee
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What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth. There was no cure for what one had seen or done. Hannah Blatchford
Kadang aku merasa jatuh cinta kepadanya seperti bernapas–terlalu mudah. Sangat...
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Kadang aku merasa jatuh cinta kepadanya seperti bernapas–terlalu mudah. Sangat mudah sampai-sampai aku tidak menyadarinya. Jee
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As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction. Alberto Manguel
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She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances– I offer last chances.” Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist. Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance. Michelle OLeary
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Aku mencintainya tanpa diketahui. Aku mencintainya dalam diam. Aku mencintainya dalam satu sudut pandang. Aku mencintainya di satu sisi. Ya, aku percaya. Jika takdirku adalah dirimu, kau akan memilihku. Nanti. Jee
Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and...
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Uh-oh, big boy. Your blood is in the water and the sharks are circling. Must be feeding time."-- Mea Brin, The Huntress Michelle OLeary
Ah, ya, omong-omong, aku sangat merindukanmu. Apa kau merindukanku juga,...
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Ah, ya, omong-omong, aku sangat merindukanmu. Apa kau merindukanku juga, mmm? Jee
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Entah mengapa, mendadak dia merasa bahwa berkenalan dengan si pemilik nama itu sepertinya akan menyenangkan. Jee
Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself,...
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Love, doesn't need any stamp of society to prove itself, it just happens Shilpi
There is only one happiness in life. To love, and...
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There is only one happiness in life. To love, and to be loved Shilpi
You can not describe anything without betraying your point of...
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You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. James Baldwin
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing,...
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It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word William H. Gass
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The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them. . E.m. Forster
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The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book. E.m. Forster
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is...
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Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. Jeanette Winterson
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Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’il lit, trouve, sans se désorienter, son chemin abrupt et sauvage, à travers les marécages désolés de ces pages sombres et pleines de poison ; car, à moins qu'il n’apporte dans sa lecture une logique rigoureuse et une tension d’esprit égale au moins à sa défiance, les émanations mortelles de ce livre imbiberont son âme comme l’eau le sucre. Il n’est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger. Par conséquent, âme timide, avant de pénétrer plus loin dans de pareilles landes inexplorées, dirige tes talons en arrière et non en avant. Écoute bien ce que je te dis : dirige tes talons en arrière et non en avant. . Unknown
A woman must have money and a room of her...
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf