#fiction

Surely Tillie knew glitter on wrinkled cleavage was a sin. ↗

— Julie Anne Lindsey

#humor #death

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them. ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#crime-thriller #death #noir #noir-fiction #death

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction

The with forbidden the death of warriors ↗

— Laurence Yep

#death

He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to a pearl; the color subtle and the luster soft, but still vibrant. In spite of the tragedy that could come with it, it was not a dying state. It was a state of living…sometimes much more brilliantly than people could cope with, including the Fey individuals themselves. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#dying #fey #genetic-state #life #living

Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#georgina #romance #succubus #vampire #dreams

(D)reams are like that: they go in and out of memories and scenes, but they're never real. They're never real, and I hate them because they aren't. ↗

— Beth Revis

#young-adult #dreams

Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#short #dreams

He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn’t exactly place in a very disturbing way. These were not his memories. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#fantasy-fiction #dreams

He who writes books that aim to convince is a comedian, too, just a comedian. What has he got to offer others, apart from chains, still more chains? Fiction never liberated anyone. No one ever brought anything back from voyages through dream worlds. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#dream #fiction #dreams