Ya Fiction Quotes

With every step, I cursed the person who had ever invented the saying: “Speak of the devil”. Clearly, they had no sympathy for me!

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.

His tricks had raised the temperature of the room considerably, although I was pretty sure his presence alone had that effect.

Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.

Nobody ever drowned in their own sweat.

Yes. She’s correct. We’re not friends. We are lufenes actually. But she’s had an overdose of magic, which has seemingly rendered her empathetically impotent.

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so

And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

A fearless mind is fearless because, it cannot see anything different from it. Fear of superiority and power comes only when we begin to differentiate.

History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.

Life is never just in your own hands ...

Simple survival is never as ordinary as it seems!

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't.

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby

The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.

Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

Wherever man did not settle, the world was not owned.It was not wanted.In time of course this was bound to change, for there is never enough it seems.

How things change, ’ I say, ‘how strange that, even when all is lost, we can still find beauty in simple things.

It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.

True beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth’s existence.

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling lik

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

It is a dangerous thing to substitute reading or writing for living. Live first, then write.

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

When we create, we become stronger. When we create, we feel better. When we create, we can use our own two hands to create a new world. And this new world will be as we want it to be.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

[When asked about Writing Conferences]"You meet people that will change your life.

What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top.

Nightmares have a dreadful effect of captivating our minds during the waking hours. Nevertheless, they are merely fiction.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Leave me alone, Do me a favor, abandon me, I want to think about, You me and the idea of forever.

And in a way I have always thought that words are alive a little, for they can whisper sweet nothings and roar dragon flame with equal efficiency.