#fiction

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine ↗

— Fay Weldon

#motherhood #she-may-not-leave #guilt

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#fiction #geisha #japan #memoirs #japan

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#manifestation

For several moments, Mary couldn't hear anything over the violent pounding of her pulse. ↗

— Y.S. Lee

#excitement #thriller #young-adult-fiction #thriller

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fiction #heresy #anarchy

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies. ↗

— Libba Bray

#mr-fantastic-fiction #zombies #zombies

She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was. ↗

— Sarah Sundin

#romance #world-war- #historical-romance

Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one. ↗

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

#fiction #fantasy-fiction

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#stories #fiction

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#blue-bloods #fiction #martin-kingsley #van-alen-legacy #young-adult