#fiction

Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed." "I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung. But what of true affection?... ↗

— Ted Dekker

#love

If I didn't love so damn hard I wouldn't have someone to risk my life for. ↗

— Leslie Lee Sanders

#dystopian-fiction #erotic-romance #gay-romance #mm #post-apocalyptic

Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#love

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he'd shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an escape route, the pacifist was trying to show me how to fight. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#fiction #vampires #love

I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. ↗

— Matthew S. Williams

#science-fiction #love

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time. ↗

— Stefan Grabiński

#fantasy #fiction #insanity #reality #thought

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost. ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#fantasy-fiction #fantasy-fiction

HATE is the shortest of human emotions, it is stronger than love, more compelling than lust. Page 30. THE SCALPEL – GAME BENEATH (www.hsrissam.com ↗

— H.S. Rissam

#cardiac-surgeon #cardiologist #echocardiolography #fiction #fiction-novel

If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right! ↗

— Junnita Jackson

#junnita-jackson #literary-fiction #love

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” --Andrew ↗