#fiction

she was lucky if he stood behind her. Not so lucky if he came to crush her. And a woman might only learn the truth of it—when he walked out of her life. Highlighted by 9 Kindle users ↗

— Lenore Wolfe

#historical-romance-fiction #inspirational-quotes #lenore-wolfe #inspirational

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#cons #fantasy #fiction #meet #overlap

She'd done the right thing in God's eyes. That's all that mattered. ↗

— Ann Shorey

#inspirational #inspirational

Well,Sir," she began,"I am twenty-one years old & still a virgin. I have never experienced sexual intercourse. My hymen is not broken.Old men say that a virgin`s Nectar is good for them. I understand that you want to buy. I want to sell."[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

#men

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#historical-fiction #humor #life

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #rebellious #young-adult

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#already #away #borders #closer #conquest