Novel Quotes

Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.

Novelists are drawn to failure. Those who prosper in the world as it is have no need to re-imagine it.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Be careful of love. It’ll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.

Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, 'Why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

No, I'm not mistaken. I know you don't love me. But I'm going to fight for your love, there are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end. You are worth it.

Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with ALIVEDNESS of spirit, so even if your hair is grey, Daddy, you can still be a boy.

When the next brilliant flash illuminates the sky, I often find myself filled with longing, though I’m at a loss to tell you what it is that I feel my life is missing.

I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what? An old woman's greed.

Murder is the way of all things, the way of nature. Every living thing is a murderer.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me - all bearing for someone else to pick.

Life, the permission to know death.

Life, the permission to know death.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.