#novel

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. ↗

— Jane Austen

#good #lady #must #novel #person

They wanted so desperately to love each other more, to remove their clothes and submit their naked bodies to each other, but it was almost as if they were cursed since the first day that they met, and it was pure torture knowing that they could only get so close, but was unable to go the height that the both of them wanted so intimately to climb. ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#romance #romantic-love #romantic-novel #romantic-suspense #romanticism

Οι παλιές αγάπες πάνε στον παράδεισο και δεν ανασταίνονται πια. Πεθαίνουν μέσα στο ίδιο το σώμα που τις γέννησε, στο σώμα που, αργότερα, από φάτνη έμεινε τάφος ξερός. Τάφος με πολλές και διάφορες επιτύμβιες επιγραφές που, με τον καιρό, αλλάζουν και γίνονται όλο και περισσότερο γενναιόδωρες. ↗

— Μάρω Βαμβουνάκη

#maro #romantic #vamvounaki #romantic

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#novels #reading #science

Bagaimana bisa kau tidak menyukai hujan? Padahal hujan selalu mendekatkan kita. Oh, aku lupa. Kau mungkin tidak menganggapku sepenting itu. Aku bukan pemeran utama dalam lakon hidupmu. Aku hanya figuran yang hanya sesekali dibutuhkan. ↗

— Jee

#fiction-novel #romance #romance-novels #romantic #swearing

Aku mencintainya tanpa diketahui. Aku mencintainya dalam diam. Aku mencintainya dalam satu sudut pandang. Aku mencintainya di satu sisi. Ya, aku percaya. Jika takdirku adalah dirimu, kau akan memilihku. Nanti. ↗

— Jee

#fiction-novel #romance #romance-novels #romantic #sweet

I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia Kensington to Colby Winters ↗

— Cristin Harber

#romance-novel #romantic-suspense #romantic

Friendly fire was never friendly, and it was coming. Operation Stand-and-Watch was over. Did that mean Operation Bust-His-Balls was on deck? ↗

— Cristin Harber

#romance-novel #romantic-suspense #romantic

His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#smaug #tolkien #novel

A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which happened at a particular time and a particular place. And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place. And if I think about something which didn't happen I start thinking about all the other things which didn't happen. For example, this morning for breakfast I had Ready Brek and some hot raspberry milkshake. But if I say that I actually had Shreddies and a mug of tea I start thinking about Coco-Pops and lemonade and Porridge and Dr Pepper and how I wasn't eating my breakfast in Egypt and there wasn't a rhinoceros in the room and Father wasn't wearing a diving suit and so on and even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang onto the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed. This is another reason why I don't like proper novels, because they are lies about things which didn't happen and they make me feel shaky and scared. And this is why everything I have written here is true. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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