#novels

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942] ↗

— Rex Stout

#dickens #larger-than-life #novels #presence #realism

We are all fools in love ↗

— Jane Austen

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I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick ↗

— Billi Jean

#romance-novels #werewolves-paranormal-romance #witches #werewolves

It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #romance #romance-novels #love

I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance-novels #love

As our kissing progresses, I don’t care that our tryst seems raunchy and wrong. I don’t care that I’m at school, in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t care that to most people this would seem cheap, dirty, and despicable. The only thing I can think about while he kisses me deeper, harder, faster, is that Henry Garner is the plague and the only thing I want him to do is infect me. ↗

— Lauren Hammond

#lovers #romance-novels #young-adult #young-adult-novels #young-love

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body. ↗

— Steven J. Daniels

#fiction #mystery-novels #love

That’s when it hit him with the force of a fastball in the chest: He was falling in love with Shane MacKinnon. He hardly knew her, and yet he knew with absolutely certainty that she was everything he’d ever wanted. He wanted to hold her like this for the rest of their lives. He wanted to wipe away her tears. He wanted to make her happy, take care of her, protect her from harm. He wanted to make babies with her and walk beside her as they grew old. He wanted to be buried next to her. Falling? It was completely nuts, but he couldn’t deny it: He was already in love with her. And it scared the crap out of him. ↗

— Jane Taylor Starwood

#romantic-suspense #love

Kadang saat kita gak mampu melepaskan orang yang terlalu kita cintai, berarti kitalah yang harus pergi ↗

— Nilam Suri Camar Biru

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Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile. ↗

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

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