Fiction Quotes

I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.

~ Erica Sehyun Song

And so life went on, as it always will.It had taken an awful lot to get there, for no victory comes without hardship and sacrifice.But then, those whom we hold so dear, that we fight so hard to protect, and suffer so greatly for, are always worth it in the end.

~ Ross Turner

Racism is a virus which can only be spread by us!

~ Simon Rumney

Thank you,” I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.”“You want to thank me, Barrow?” she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. “Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn.” (300)

~ Victoria Aveyard

The decision of their fates lay elsewhere, and the thought of that alone was utterly terrifying.

~ Ross Turner

It is a very difficult thing, to love another.To some it comes easily, naturally even. Whilst for others, the road to such things is long and arduous and fraught with danger.

~ Ross Turner

It is often said that things must get worse before they can get better, and there is truth in that.

~ Ross Turner

Death, child. It’s beckoning us both, my brother and I.

~ Ross Turner

Cruelty had been his weapon. But such a tool is dangerous and can spread further than you intend.

~ Ross Turner

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

~ George R.r. Martin

Thank you,” she said, tears leaking out of her eyes. “Thank you so much.” A gentle and hesitant hand came down on her back. “Don’t cry, Treasure. You’ll get me all wet and then I’ll melt. I’m made of sugar, don’t you know.” (Jack Dandy And Finley)

~ Kady Cross

Perhaps great fiction is in reality, deep hidden truths.

~ S.g. Savage

Neither in the deepest ocean Nor in the perpetual snowHeaven was on earth that dayFor some reason we are yet to know

~ Sameer Kumar

He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine.

~ Ross Turner

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

~ Margaret Atwood

I hate you, Edgar. I hate you with all my heart.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

~ Sukanya Venkatraghavan

He was like nothing she’d ever known.Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more.

~ Ross Turner

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

~ C. J. Milbrandt

Big changes could come quickly, and he wondered what else might happen to his heart while he wasn't paying attention.

~ C. J. Milbrandt

It is said, once a wise man from the far North told me; it is said that there are in certain parts of Scandinavia cities within cities like there are circles within circles; existent yet invisible. And those cities are inhabited by creatures more terrible than imagination can create : man-shaped but man-devouring, as black and as silent as the night they prowl in.

~ Johanna Sinisalo

And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn.There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate.

~ Ross Turner

She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless.

~ Ross Turner

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

~ Ross Turner

If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be.

~ Ross Turner

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

~ Ross Turner

Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll keep coming back, until there's only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday—if it keeps coming back often enough—another star will find it again.

~ Sarah J. Maas

The first sight I beheld when I first awakened was a pair of eyes filled with pure adoration and a joyful grin that shone more brightly than the afternoon sun. Though he hadn’t spoken a single word, I knew exactly who he was. He was my creator … my Lord … my God.

~ Kristen Reed

There is no reticence nor any limit to a 'Majique.' Only the unwillingness of the mind to open itself to the limitless power of possibilities that exist within the unbelievable.

~ Rob Shepherd

The entire history of mankind is problem solving, or science fiction swallowing ideas, digesting them, and excreting formulas for survival. You can't have one without the other. No fantasy, no reality. No studies concerning loss, no gain. No imagination, no will. No impossible dreams: No possible solutions.

~ Ray Bradbury

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. Maybe sometimes promises had to be broken. Maybe sometimes you were doomed to failure from the start, no matter how hard you fought. But acknowledging your own helplessness was no consolation - if anything, it just made you feel worse.

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

~ M. Robert Randolph

It seemed everything would be alright after all.

~ Ross Turner

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious…Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open.

~ Philip Pullman

Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.

~ Mariana Hak

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

~ Ross Turner

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

~ Jessica O'toole