#fiction

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #science-fiction #religion

So much emotion goes into writing fiction. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#fiction #goes #into #much #writing

I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope. ↗

— Lucy Christopher

#poetic-fiction #beauty

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#explains #fictional #itself #unlike

There’s always time for arguin’ when you’re a Fuentes. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humour #romance #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #funny

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! ↗

— Erin Duffy

#book #fiction #fun #good #historical

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#because #equal #fiction #good #more

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dystopia #prophesy #science-fiction #beauty