Grandfather recently died. He died alone on a trip away from home in a town where no one expected him to be
Téa ObrehtTags: opening-lines fiction compelling-first-words
I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world.
Leslie DanielsTags: fiction compelling-first-words
Vi siete mai chiesti quanto vale una vita umana? Quella mattina la vita di mio fratello valeva un orologio da taschino.
Ruta SepetysTags: fiction stalin avevano-spento-anche-la-luna romanzo ruta-sepetys urss
Stalin mi aveva portato via la casa e mio padre e ora si era preso anche il mio compleanno.
Ruta SepetysTags: fiction avevano-spento-anche-la-luna romanzo
She was going to go home after this and sip red wine and stare at the wall, I could tell. She would wonder why she was doing this, struggling against commercial interests at a corporate hospital when all she wanted to do was help people, and in the morning, when she walked out of her beautiful home and unlocked her convertible, she would remember.
Max BerryTags: fiction corporations
Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
Philippa GregoryTags: historical-fiction fiction henry-viii boleyn katherine
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.
Isabelle RowanTags: books fiction life-lessons
...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies.
Rebecca MakkaiTags: on-fiction fiction
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.
Umberto EcoTags: reading fiction storytelling escapism interpretation escape narrative context real-world
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
Jacqueline CareyTags: love fiction kushiel-s-dart jacqueline-carey
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