What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?
Julian BarnesTags: life reality fiction protagonist
Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.
Abigail TarttelinTags: identity commercial fiction literary lgbt novel perfection beautiful author intersex lgbtqia
We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.
John DufresneTags: books fiction story storytelling novel
The truth is, time marches on and you have two choices: You move forward, come what may, and you experience all the sour and sweet things that fly at you from around corners, or you sit still. Don't sit still.
Suzanne PalmieriTags: fiction debut-novel
The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.
Suzanne PalmieriTags: fiction debut-novel
Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
Gustave FlaubertTags: imagination reading adventure characters fiction madame-bovary reading-experience
As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.
Virginia McKevittTags: adventure fantasy paranormal-romance fiction mystery science-fiction-fantasy adventure-stories
I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.
Erica Sehyun SongTags: adventure fantasy fiction adventures fictional fiction-writing fictions fantasy-fiction fiction-fantasy fiction-novel fantasy-young-adult fantasy-ya adventure-fiction
I distracted Herbert by pretending to trip and break a bone. Ethan darted around to the red golf cart with a cocky smile on his face. He put the key in ignition, and the vehicle roared to life. “Hey,” Herbert shouted, snapping his attention to Ethan.
I sprang up and ran up to Ethan. He pulled me in the cart and stomped on the gas pedal. We shot through the automatic doors with Herbert on our tail.
“Go faster!” I cheered.
My brother smacked the steering wheel. “I can’t; it’s a golf cart.
Tags: adventure fantasy fiction adventures fictional fiction-writing fictions fantasy-fiction fiction-fantasy fiction-novel fantasy-young-adult fantasy-ya adventure-fiction
Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.
Erica Sehyun SongTags: adventure fantasy fiction adventures fictional fiction-writing fictions fantasy-fiction fiction-fantasy fiction-novel fantasy-young-adult fantasy-ya adventure-fiction
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