#fiction

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. ↗

— John Twelve Hawks

#science-fiction #technology #science

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#historical-fiction #romance #scotland #time-travel #time

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#books #fiction #read #reading #stories

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. ↗

— Alan Moore

#parables #storytelling #true

Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#georgina #romance #succubus #vampire #children

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. I am Jack's Broken Heart. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#broken

The greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#enemy

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness! ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#speculative-fiction #young-adult #grace

Conceited little mega-puppy. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #humor

In darkness there is death. ↗

— Bob Mayer

#first-lines #thriller #thrillers #death