Fiction Quotes

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

~ Priya Ardis

I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure.

~ Priya Ardis

She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.

~ Marie Rutkoski

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

If I'd had enough breath, I would have screamed, both at the sensation and at the sheer pettiness of the bastard who wouldn't allow me even a tiny chance of escape.

~ Karen Chance

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 and love.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.”Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.

~ Lia Habel

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.

~ Priya Ardis

Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement. After I met you, my life ran on sheer compassion.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

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

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

~ Kate Chopin

I don’t think I’ve ever referred to any girl I dated as my girlfriend. I think that would freak me out. Even the girl that I dated for two years in college I don’t think I ever referred to her as my girlfriend.”“How would you introduce her?” I asked.“I’m just going to say her name,” he said.

~ Daniel Amory

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

~ Billie-Jo Williams

Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m notattempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know you’re capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanently, and for various reasons that we’ve already gotten angsty about together, I don’t want that to happen.”“Okay, okay,” she sighed.“Angsty?” Chas asked. “Ooh! Later, details!”“Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward.

~ Lia Habel

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.

~ Oscar Wilde

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

my boy? he is evenbetter than books. -fiction has nothing on you.

~ Amanda Lovelace

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

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

Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma

~ P.t. Macias

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

~ Priya Ardis

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.

~ Lara Adrian

My name's Sean, Jem. I'm Sean.

~ J.a. Belfield

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

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 he had taken my other self: Anne.

~ Philippa Gregory

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

~ Destinee Hardwick

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

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 mudah sampai-sampai aku tidak menyadarinya.

~ Jee

There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some.But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?

~ Francis Ray

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

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 O'leary

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

If someday you should ever think of me and miss me, know in your heart that I'd want you to find me once again. No matter how distant in time or space... FIND ME.

~ Sebastian Cole

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew

~ Laura Kreitzer

Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

~ Rick Barnett