Ya Fiction Quotes
I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
To try is to accept the possibility of failure. Simply do.
Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.
In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.
Teachers and leaders and storytellers and healers will grow from the earth like blessed flowers, blossoming outward with Divine guidance, to lead the rest.
Where there is great love there is great harmony of thought.
Gut instinct, " Jeremy wheezed. "Your gut's been shot, " Mike pointed out, but he looked uncertain.
More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.
Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.
My attention was like cooking butter, not spreadable at the best of times. And when it was spreadable, it could destroy your toast by setting it ablaze. I was unpredictable, even to myself.
My father was a patient father. He was so patient that when he once saw a sign that read ‘Patient Entrance’ at the Welt Foot Hospital, he drove his automobile incredibly slow.
A great deal of a child’s life is being asked and being told things by adults and not knowing the answers or what to do. So, I didn’t say anything.
Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!
Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.” Pastel Orphans
Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.
The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.
If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!
Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.
Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.
Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.
You know I love you, ' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it, ' said Coraline.
I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris, ' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?
Infatuation burns itself out, ' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry--that can last a lifetime.
I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.
Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The....Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years....
What happens when two introverts collide? Do they dissolve completely in each other’s patience and silence, or do they break their glass shells and become new people?
We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a choice in life.
It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right - John Cleaver
Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny - John Cleaver
Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.
I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of the Perpetual Astonishment
After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn’s for an oyster supper.
Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.
Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter, so long as there were souls for sale he was ready to buy ..
Nothing in the world has a greater power to enslave than fiction. ~ Aarush Kashyap
One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.
It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.