Excellent Writing Quotes

“There was silence in the square, except for the sound of several thousand people being astonished.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“I hold Ruthie's hand and she holds my hand, we sit like that, giving each other strength, like strangers on a crashing plane.”
― Ben H. Winters, World of Trouble

“We stare at our nephew like he's a word with a new definition.”
― Matthew Baker, Why Visit America

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight”
― ― Stephenie Meyer

“For generations Ashton had taken pride in its grass-roots warmth and dignity and had striven to be a good place for its children to grow up. But now there were inner turmoils, anxieties, fears, as if some kind of cancer was eating away at the town and invisibly destroying it. On the exterior, there were the store windows now replaced with unsightly plywood, the many parking meters broken off, the litter and broken glass up and down the street. But even as the store owners and businessmen swept up the debris, there seemed to be an unspoken sureness that the inner problems would remain, the troubles would continue. Crime was up, especially among the youth; simple, common trust in one’s neighbor was diminishing; never had the town been so full of rumors, scandals, and malicious gossip. In the shadow of fear and suspicion, life here was gradually losing its joy and simplicity, and no one seemed to know why or how.”
― Frank E. Peretti, This Present Darkness