The Novel Quotes

Have you worked towards your dream today? Alan Shepherd

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

Everything was bright and white, even in the night.

I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes, ' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

Please don’t be upset. The last thing in the world I want is to see you upset and that too with me. It’s terrifying to see your beautiful eyes turn red with anger.

She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.

Love is a struggle, hard to get and hard to leave.

Who says only long tedious novels are good to read when all that can be summed up in one line

Be careful what you tell me. You could end up in my next novel.

You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.

Never, baby. Between us, the sun is never going down.

Don't starve an instinct with a lie on, Never hit or deceive a wounded lion. He heals faster than you can imagine And hurts even more when in famine.

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.

Your passions don’t have to connect to one another and no one needs to sign off on them. Passion isn’t logical… it’s only the fuel which keeps our souls alive. Let it be that simple.

People believe in everything except the reality.

Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Be who you were meant to be and not what you've allowed yourself to become, " Kate said to Mavis as she wavered over following her dream. from 'Lifesong

As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting and considered novel.

There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.

It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.Bhanggi

From the moment of birth, folks suddenly wanted what others said they could not have. Kids craved the most sugary sweets how alcoholics thirsted for one more drink with the most impactful punch.

Fate bring two people togetherand it is love's job t o keep them there.

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats. Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE

Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.

But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.