Fictional Quotes

“   In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning."
"Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?"
"I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though."
"Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?"
"You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering."
"Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this.”
― Richelle Mead, Frostbite

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
 ”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Every man dies, not every man really lives”
― Randall Wallace, Braveheart

“She knew how people slipped through cracks—not all at once, but in layers.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“You can use all the hundred dollar words you want,” said Vic, “women like that are like TNT. You go after their man, they’d sooner kill you than look at you.”
― A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

“She didn’t just feel safe.
She felt chosen.
And for the first time in her life, that felt… right.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. ..Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The interior of the Loomis house was silent in a way
that felt deliberate, as though the sound had been swept up with yesterday’s dust. ”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

“She raised the gun.
Fired.
The sound cracked through the cabin like a door
slamming on the past.”
― D.L. Maddox, Secrets

“I look at people holdings hands in the hallways, and I try to think how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to ‘their song.’ In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy.”
― Stephen Chbosky

“They were holding their weapons but could not risk opening a window or exiting the vehicle to return fire. Then they saw one of their attackers pull out a grenade.”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us

“...manusia terlahir ke dunia dibungkus rasa percaya. Tak ada yang lebih tahu kita ketimbang plasenta. Tak ada rumah yang lebih aman daripada rahim ibu. Namun, di detik pertama kita meluncur ke luar, perjudian hidup dimulai. Taruhanmu adalah rasa percaya yang kau lego satu per satu demi sesuatu bernama cinta”
― Dee, Supernova: Ksatria, Puteri, dan Bintang Jatuh

“Joey, you’re a terrific human, my favorite, as a matter of fact. You mustn’t forget that. Ever. Will you give me your word?”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

“I appreciate that, Joey. It’s just that I’ve come to enjoy being more of an animal. At least a bit”
― Sara Pascoe, Oswald the Almost Famous Opossum

“We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us together. We understand each other.”
― Erica Sehyun Song

“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.

The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.”
― Vera Nazarian

“How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?”
― Stephenie Meyer, The Host

“Treason is a judgment based wholly on perspective.”
― Jeffrey S. Stephens, Enemies Among Us

“The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of what rEaLiTy only should be.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“Manusia berbagi 63% kesamaan gen dengan protozoa, 66% kesamaan gen dengan jagung, 75% dengan cacing. Dengan sesama kera-kera besar, perbedaan kita tidak lebih dari tiga persen. Kita berbagi 97% gen yang sama dengan orang utan. Namun, sisa tiga persen itu telah menjadikan pemusnah spesiesnya. Manusia menjadi predator nomor satu di planet ini karena segelintir saja gen berbeda.”
― Dee, Partikel

“Tak ada cara untuk menggambarkannya dengan tepat. Tapi coba bayangkan ada sepuluh ribu ikan piranha yang menyergapmu langsung. Kau tak mungkin berpikir. Tak mungin mengucapkan kalimat perpisahan apalagi membacakan wasiat. Lupakan untuk berpisah dengan manis dan mesra seperti di film-film. Listrik membunuhmu dengan sensasi. Begitu dashyatnya. engkau hanya mampu terkulai lemas. Engkau mati tergoda”
― Dee, Supernova: Petir

“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.”
― adam johnson

“But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.”
― Tom Dolby

“There once was a town.
It was a quaint little town, in a quiet valley, where life moved at the pace of snails and the only road in was the only way out, too. There was a candy store that sold the sweetest honey taffy you ever tasted, and a garden store that grew exotic, beautiful blooms year-round. The local café was named after a possum that tormented its owner for years, and the chef there made the best honey French toast in the Northeast. There was a bar where the bartender always knew your name, and always served your burgers slightly burnt, though the local hot sauce always disguised the taste. If you wanted to stay the weekend, you could check-in at the new bed-and-breakfast in town--- just as soon as its renovations were finished, and just a pleasant hike up Honeybee Trail was a waterfall there, rumor had it, if you made a wish underneath it, the wish would come true. There was a drugstore, a grocer, a jewelry store that was open only when Mercury was in of retrograde---
And, oh, there was a bookstore.
It was tucked into an unassuming corner of an old brick building fitted with a labyrinthine maze of shelves stocked with hundreds of books. In the back corner was a reading space with a fireplace, and chairs so cozy you could sink into them for hours while you read. The rafters were filled with glass chimes that, when the sunlight came in through the top windows, would send dapples of colors flooding across the stacks of books, painting them in rainbows. A family of starlings roosted in the eaves, and sang different songs every morning, in time with the tolls of the clock tower.
The town was quiet in that cozy, sleepy way that if you closed your eyes, you could almost hear the valley breathe as wind crept through it, between the buildings, and was sighed out again.”
― Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

“Hope was a knife sharp, fragile, and always cutting her hand.”
― Yarro Rai, Vice and Virtue

“You don't need to experiment with quantum physics to get that insight for yourself. You already contain so many more versions of you than you can imagine. You just need to locate them, accept their benefits and liabilities, and turn those into the best mixture of yours possible. Because that's the you that the world needs now. You've got it all inside you. You just need to learn to let it out.”
― Scott Lang

“Umut ediyorduk, dünyanın sihirli bir yer olduğuna inanıyorduk, çünkü bunca kötülüğün, çaresizliğin, el konulan şiir pusulalarının ve yere düşen saç tokalarının arasında da bir aşkın yaşayabildiği, çünkü içinde "Bu mektubu bulan bana bir mektup yazsın," diyen bir pusulayla denizleri aşıp, oturduğumuz sahile vuran şişelerin bulunabildiği bir dünyada yaşıyorduk.”
― Şükran Yiğit, Burası Radyo Şarampol

“The choice to be bold is not some cavalier notion born of the fictional battles that grant us some needed sense of purpose and duty. Rather, it is the choice to accept a battle that we may not win and to bear the wounds of battle that may never heal.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just remember one thing, though: Tears are acidic, which means they dissolve stuff. But not just chemically - spiritually. They don't dissolve your strength. They dissolve the glue that keeps you sealed into an earlier version of yourself.”
― Scott Lang