#Fiction

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."

"Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that made-up stories can matter, which is sort of the foundational assumption of our species."

"Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it."

"When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story."

"Listen."Jennifer reverted, "I didn't mean anything by all of that before. I understand what you were trying to do and ..."She struggled for the right words. "Sweetie, like love, people don't live inside of life, life lives inside of you. Open yourself up to it and there's no stopping your heart."

"A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door swung shut behind Jenks, sealing us in the warm air smelling faintly of smoke. Immediately Nick yanked it open to come in behind us. And there’s the punch line."

"You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know."

"I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again..."

"The only sweeter than union is reunion."

"We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't."

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

"I can't go on, I'll go on."

"There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong."

"She fixed a smile that she hoped looked authentic. Pretending to be content continued to be hard work."

"The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful."

"There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book."

"Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid."

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced."

"After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-""Okay, that was so not my fault-""-which wiped out two-thirds of the human population.""I'd like to remind you that you don't like humans.""They smell bad when they're dead.""All you mortal types do."

"People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them."