Ficiton Quotes

“For an instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desired each others destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.”
― Laini Taylor, Muse of Nightmares

“The theologian is interested specifically in the modern novel because there he sees reflected the man of our time, the unbeliever, who is nevertheless grappling in a desperate and usually honest way with intense problems of the spirit.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“You are impossible, a paradox, a collection at odds.
You are everything to everyone.
The son they never had.
The friend they always wanted.
A generous stranger.
A successful son.
A perfect gentleman.
A perfect partner.
A perfect ...
Perfect ...
(Drink.)
They love your body.
Your abs.
Your laugh.
The way you smell.
They want you.
(Not you.)
They love you.
(Not you.)
You are whoever they want you to be.
You are more than enough, because you are not real.
You are perfect, because you don't exist.
(Not you.)
(Never you.)
They look at you and see whatever they want ...
Because they don't see you at all.”
― V E Schwab

“Not a very remarkable town, to be sure, except it has the one distinction that no other town I know of has: a terrible history with the fantastic.”
― J.C. Egan, Innerworld: A Satire

“He punched and thrashed around as he lay in his coffin and he felt his leg swinging in unnatural ways and his knuckles ached with the blood and bruises from trying to fight his way out.”
― Chris Cummings, Shards