Novel Quotes
It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?
Alive, and one. We are one, and while we love, death will never touch us. 'The grave's a fine and private place/ but none, I think, do there embrace.
I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.
Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...
Love is something that is beyond us. We can't anticipate love. When, where and with whom we fall in love is coincidental and wonderful for the same reason.
Life is full of beautiful moments. Live your life to the fullest. And do what youlove.
Perhaps the whole of life is a continuousinterconnecting of miracle, but we don't always realise it.
she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her.
If a novelist were so uncouth and possessed of so little moral sense that he should write of illicit love, his book would be barred from the public libraries and he woukd be ostracized by society.
Had Zach just apologised for kissing her? She didn’t know whether to cry or slap his face. ~Maddie
Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.
Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.
I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.
Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing
It takes skill to win a battle, but brains to win a war.
To live is to walk beside Death but never join hands. ~ Captain Buck "Slackeye" Roberts
The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.
Her friend glanced between Cait and Dante.“But Cait, The Hulk has requested my absence. I believe it best if I cooperate.
Ninety percent of my work is crap, ” he continued. “Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.
Adolescence is like a heavy rain. Even though you catch a cold from it, you still look forward to experiencing it once again.(From 'In Those Bygone Years, The Girl We All Went After' the novel)
Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture.
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?I said nothing.-Deny it, damn you!
I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me, will you. Stop defending yourself.
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel, constantly, but only in my brain.
Most times, my mind is just an ongoing, present-tense, first-person monologue. It's like I'm writing a novel.
If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.
The Americans have perfected weather forecasts: a model presents a model of the Earth, a map, and jabs at it with her pointer – here and here, this is going to happen. Voodoo.
Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you.
Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?
The most important thing I came to tell you is that I want your oath that you will keep an open mind...about everything that may seem impossible.
I just came this morning and haven't been debriefed yet about the status of our latest prisoners. As a matter of fact, I'd barely stepped inside,
God is at the helm even when you think your ship is sinking. Just keep trusting that the captain knows more about where you're heading than you do, and eventually you'll get where you need to be.
