Epistolary Novel Quotes

“The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.”
― Kim Fay, Love & Saffron

“We stepped to the window. Off to one side there was thunder, and the splendid rain was trickling down upon the land; the most refreshing fragrance rose up to us from the rich abundance of the warm atmosphere. She stood leaning on her elbows, with her gaze searching the countryside; she looked up to heaven and at me; I saw her eyes fill with tears, and she laid her hand on mine, saying, "Klopstock!" I recalled at once the glorious ode she had in mind, and became immersed in the stream of emotions which she had poured over me by uttering this symbolic name. I could not bear it, I bent down over hand and kissed it amid tears of the utmost rapture. And looked into her eyes again - noble poet! Would that you had seen your apotheosis in that gaze, and would that your name, so often profaned, would never reach my ears from any other lips.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...”
― Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

“There's a kind of time travel in letters, isn't there?”
― Amal El-Mohtar,

“A letter is more than text.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Hello Readers! I look forward to adding to my author page. I”
― Rita Gard Seedorf, Letters From Brackham Wood: A Moira Edwards Mystery

“The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.”
― CS Lewis