#fiction

He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all. ↗

— Sophie Jordan

#fantasy #fiction #paranormal #romance #shapeshifters

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#intellectual #mythology #norse #life

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is...edible ornamentation. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#food

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#science

David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over us, and that we in turn wield over them. ↗

— John Connolly

#science-fiction-fantasy #science

A person who promises and does not fulfill his promise is similar to an egg that never hatches. ↗

— Hadas Moosazadeh

#science

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#fiction #on-fiction #stories #writing #broken

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#teaching

You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because i can inflict pain, that i should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#sci-fi #teen-fiction #teen

Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#science