Ruby Quotes
A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.
Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
Wasn't it what her father always warned her about? Don't jump off a bridge because a cute guy tells you to?
The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes to that part in your story.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
We don’t read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.
If she's not alright, I'm going to rip out his heart and eat it." I nodded. "You really shouldn't eat raw meat, " Chubs said.
You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.
Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.
You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether
You always had it in you to create miracles, but you forgot that it required you to do the opposite of what you are doing now.
Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.
I give him the kind of smile only shared between two people who desperately hate something and thoroughly enjoy hating it together.
Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.
—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?