Contact
Privacy
Home
Latest
Oldest
Popular
Random
Home
»
Categories
»
fiction
Category:
fiction
Quotes of Category: fiction
TOP TAGS :
alcohol
inner-being
radiant
pedestrian
worse
honesty
will-solace
future-plans
Angela Carter
_
Saints and Strangers
There Peter sat in the new sunlight, plaiting the straw for baskets, until he saw the thing he had been taught most to fear advancing silently along the lea of an outcrop of rock."
book-quote
fiction
literature
gothic
Virginia Woolf
_
Selected Essays
And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
book-quote
fiction
virginia-woolf
modern-fiction
Virginia Woolf
_
A Room of One's Own
I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
book-quote
feminism
women
self-determination
Virginia Woolf
_
A Room of One's Own
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance {...}; as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as points out {in his }, she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.
book-quote
truth
respect
fiction
Gustave Flaubert
_
Madame Bovary
Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if it were yourself palpitating beneath their costumes.
book-quote
reading
imagination
fiction
Slavoj Žižek
_
Tarrying with the Negative:
as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.
book-quote
fiction
philosophy
real
Daphne du Maurier
_
Rebecca
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.
book-quote
fiction
Margaret Mitchell
_
Gone with the Wind
What's broken is broken-and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
book-quote
remember
fiction
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
_
Notes from Underground, White
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
book-quote
fiction
russian
russian-literature
Enid Blyton
_
The Enchanted Wood
Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!
book-quote
humor
fiction
L.M. Montgomery
_
Anne of Green Gables
But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?
book-quote
fiction
l-m-montgomery
anne-shirley
Ralph Ellison
_
Invisible Man
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
book-quote
humor
fiction
rsas
Load More
Categories
book-quote (0.5m)
love (43k)
life (41k)
inspirational (29k)
philosophy (15k)
humor (15k)
god (14k)
truth (13k)
wisdom (11k)
happiness (10k)
About
Contact
Privacy
Terms of service
Disclaimer