#novels

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. ↗

A freedom given up is not so easily regained. ↗

#civil-liberty #civil-rights-movement #constitution #constitutional-rights #freedom

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

من لا يعاني ، تصبح كلماته مجرد جمع من حروف لا معنى له ، حتى و إن كان هذا الجمع عقد من الجواهر الفريد ↗

— تركي الحمد

#suffering-life #life

The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science-fiction #education

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fiction #novels #life

Life is'nt about getting everything you want the instant you want it.Some thing are worth waiting for. ↗

— Mira Lyn Kelly

#mira-lynn-kelly #novels #quotes #waking-up-married #life

Selingkuh: meninggalkan yang tak sempurna untuk yang lebih tak sempurna. ↗

— Christian Simamora

#relationship-advice #romance #romance-novels #sad-but-true #selingkuh

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#england #homophobia #homosexuality #lgbt-literature #maurice-novel

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it. ↗