#fiction

Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re both proud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if you can.’ ‘Or even better, visit!’ said his mother, ‘our home isn’t complete without you! ↗

— Chris Tinniswood

#fantasy #fiction #home

Honey, you worry too much. Nothing is going to happen, I mean come on, you’re in the house of Mr. Hausefalle, the guru of home security! You’re probably safer over there than here."- House Trap, ch. 4: A Grave Mistake. ↗

— Mike Mauthor

#realistic-fiction #suspense #thriller #home

This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. ↗

— Meryl S. Fortney (formerly RSF)

#fiction #paxcorpus #quotes #home

They were here from the beginning. They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes. They were always here. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#bionics #dystopian-fiction #robots #the-unknown #unknown

Over the past couple of months, Chantel had become a pro at leading book discussions and inventing fun games and trivia questions that all related to that particular month's book selection. Although, last month's theme, dystopian and the book selection "Matched" by Allie Condie, had the retirement home director a little concerned when everyone wanted to stop taking their medications. Not... a good... thing! ↗

— JoJo Sutis

#chantel-s-choice #humor #jojo-sutis #matched #teen-fiction

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#dark-humor #fiction #personal-insight #rob-gordon #humor

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#humor #on-fiction #humor

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#science-fiction-movie #humor

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#humor #humor

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor #literature #lying #romance #humor