Dana Wright > Dana's Quotes

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Cupcake, your middle name is trouble.”
― Janet Evanovich, Four to Score

“Babe," Ranger said. "You're looking a little strung out. Is there anything I should know?"
I'm on a sugar withdrawal. I've given up desert and it's all I can think about." That had been true five minutes ago. Now that Ranger was standng in front of me I was thinking a cupcake wasn't what I actually needed.
Maybe I can help you get your mind off doughnuts," Ranger said.
My mouth dropped open, and I think some drool might have dribbled out.”
― Janet Evanovich

“Life is not what you have or what you can keep. It is what you can bear to lose.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

“We, all of us, must be left alone to make good on our own consciences. And no county magistrate or judge or deacon can separate us from the truth, for they are only men.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

“I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you're okay with that, because it's who I am, and you're what I need.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.”
― Elizabeth Marx, All's Fair in Vanity's War

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
― Erma Bombeck

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”
― Erma Bombeck

“A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”
― Philip Roth

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories