#fiction

Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the white sheet she’d thrown in for mopping up bodily fluids. Quinn, sitting in the back seat, read my mind and handed it to me. “Thank you.” “No problem.” He leaned forward, pulling a corner of the sheet up to wipe off a small stream of blood on my neck. “You okay? ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#distracted-driving #glass-girl #henry-whitmire #high-school #laura-anderson-kurk

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all. ↗

— Laura Resnick

#critical-analysis #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #five-seasons-of-angel

And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #faith

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down. ↗

— Kristina McMorris

#god #inspirational #japanese-fiction #philosophy-religion #war

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith? ↗

— Dave Eggers

#faith #hurricane-katrina #nonfiction #faith

She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#fiction #identity #personal-growth #women-s-fiction #faith

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #faith

To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again. lines from Love Vs Destiny... ↗

— Atul Purohit

#fiction #life #love #novel #faith

The only sweeter than union is reunion. ↗

— Kathleen McGowan

#fiction #faith

The sight of her made him understand why he'd lost his faith in God. ↗

— Sarah Langan

#fiction #god #horror #human-cruelty #humor