If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.

Albert Camus

Tags: humor fiction



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We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people's stories - that's how it goes, does it not?

Susan Fletcher

Tags: fiction



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By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: inspirational fiction



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I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.

E.M. Forster

Tags: love fiction homosexuality lgbt-literature maurice-novel gay-men



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No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tags: classic fiction drama nick-carraway



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There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Joseph Conrad

Tags: classic fiction marlow



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There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

Kate Chopin

Tags: romance classic fiction edna-pontellier



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Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.

Halldór Laxness

Tags: truth lies fiction fact



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Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away.

Derek Landy

Tags: humor fiction young-adult first-paragraph



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What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth.
There was no cure for what one had seen or done.

Hannah Blatchford

Tags: romance fiction paranormal vampire



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