Fiction Quotes - Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream

 

Fiction Quotes - Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream 

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

― Tim O'Brien

 

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”

― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

 

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”

― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

 

“When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything.”

― Chase Brooks, Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance

 

“Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. ”

― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

 

“Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

 

“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”

― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

 

“Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”

― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

 

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

 

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

 

“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.”

― David Foster Wallace

 

“Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”

― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

 

“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.”

― John Cheever

 

   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

 

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

 

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger

 

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”

― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

 

“No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

― J.D. Robb, Innocent in Death

 

“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”

― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

 

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”

― Bertrand Russell , Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

 

“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”

― L.J. Smith, Nightfall

 

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”

― Robert Jordan

 

“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”

― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

 

“The early women rise before I do. Their lamps splinter the gloom of the kitchens. They chatter in whispers as they brew tea for the cooks. Windows are open to counter the heat of the ovens. Outside, the sky is as black as my soul.”

― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

 

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”

― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

 

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"

He stood up. "Let's dance.”

― Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues