#fiction

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fiction #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #reality #romance

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#inspiration #write #writer #inspirational

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

— Cormac McCarthy

#inspirational #inspirational

Enemy?’ Horus laughed. ‘When did they become the enemy? They are men like us.’ He glared up at the night sky, threw back his head and screamed a curse at the stars. Then his voice fell to a whisper. Loken was close enough to hear his words. ‘Why have you tasked me with this, father? Why have you forsaken me? Why? It is too hard. It is too much. Why did you leave me to do this on my own? ↗

— Dan Abnett

#men

It don't take long to stay all night here! ↗

— Charles Dahnmon Whitt

#inspirational

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. ↗

— Jean Thompson

#inspirational-quote #inspirational

The simplicity of youth is mesmerizing to me. Maybe because I didn't know it long enough." London Drake "They All fall down ↗

— Nick Moccia

#fiction #inspirational-life #inspirational

Perfection is found in the doing, not in the results. ↗

— Clay Mitchell

#suspense-action #inspirational

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #inspirational

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion