#fiction

He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side and combed over his balding pate. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#forensics #mystery-thriller #life

Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that makes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with one hand, and use the other to claw your way back home. -Ripple ↗

— Valjeanne Jeffers

#character-quote #fiction #immortal #love

. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return. ↗

— Courtney Giardina

#ebook #fiction #heroine #love #love-hurts

I will love you forever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again . . . ↗

— Philip Pullman

#love #love

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day. ↗

— E.J. Stevens

#fiction #humorous #mystery #mystery-series #paranormal

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?" "I'd rather swim in battery acid. ↗

— Robin Benway

#humor #wait #young-adult-fiction #humor

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money? ↗

— Trudi Canavan

#fiction #humor #magic #humor

...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction. ↗