#Fiction

"If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled."

"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"

"This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer."

"Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time."

"I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you."

"The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself."

"It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

"Not really hungry.""She’ll eat."Pritkin said curtly."I said —""If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation.""I eat plenty.""The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however.""I’ll have a sandwich,"I told Nick. "No meat."

"The trouble with fiction,"said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."

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

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

"Yeah, tell me I’m a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That’s the way to my heart."

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

"...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go."From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102."

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

"I keep warning and warning, and nobody seems willing to listen. One of these days someone is going to wake up to the fact that I'm serious when I say never to attack my sister without looking over your shoulder for me. (Rhoan)"

"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."

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