Ya Fiction Quotes

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

This book is so interesting. I always wonder what's going to happen next.

That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

L shot Maki a disappointed look. But soon he forgot everything when Misa Amane appeared onstage. Enraptured he began to cheer with the girls in black lace and frilly skirts.

The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.

You know when I told you the joke about how a friend will help you move, but a real friend will help you move a body? I was only kidding.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

When you see a small change in your life it means its a huge change in personality and your trait

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck.

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

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

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.