Contemporary Fiction Quotes

“I didn't want to miss out on another second with this girl. Fuck everything. Fuck everyone. None of it mattered.”
― Ella Maise, The Hardest Fall

“All I see in hindsight is the chaos of history repeated, over and over, re-enacted, reinterpreted, the world, it’s fucked-up heart palpitating underneath us, failing, messing up again and again as it wound its way around a sun, and in the middle of it all, tribes, families, people, all beautiful things falling apart, debris, dust, erasure.”
― Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

“This was real life, not a book. And in
real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went
home.”
― Danielle Steele

“It is not a good idea to call yourself a sardine in a family like Leo's, who will not let you forget it.”
― Sharon Creech, Replay

“Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep

“I rub my head, feel hot tears burn my eyes. I know the meaning of "forsake." I know it means when somebody has leave you by yourself. When you of no use to the person. A wasted waste. I am not a wasted waste; I am Adunni. A person important enough because my tomorrow will be better than today.”
― Abi Daré, The Girl with the Louding Voice

“I always feel apprehensive when someone reads my work for the first time. Most writers are probably the same, with a desperate need to be liked – preferably expressed as lavish praise and uncritical admiration.”
― Jack Messenger, Farewell Olympus

“The cage of your pain is wide open. It’s time to fly free.”
― Holly Ducarte, The Light Over Broken Tide

“Maybe knowing what it is that you want, the future that you have been fighting for, is what it will take to make it happen. It's easy to admit defeat and let go of people you love, or dreams you have, because it's difficult. Fighting for them is what takes courage. Fighting for them is what matters.”
― Rowan Coleman, We are All Made of Stars

“Justice is not blind, and she wears stilettos.”
― Camryn King, Stiletto Justice

“Her dress sparkled like the stars that blanketed the Mykonos night sky.”
― Anthea Syrokou, The Greek Tapestry

“My own mother was evacuated at the age of five during World War Two and my father was a young man working as an ARP warden. This novel is purely fictitious, but I wanted to explore the traumas that many ordinary people of the war generation suffered, experiences which would be quite unimaginable to many of us today and then to contrast them with the issues we all face in the modern day.”
― Deborah Stone, What's Left Unsaid

“We as a people are much stronger than our circumstances.”
― J. Brinkley

“A life not truly lived is hurt and fear, not healed or acknowledged.”
― Anthea Syrokou, True Colours

“She realised that he would never be sorry because he had refused to see her for who she was - and who she definitely wasn’t.”
― Anthea Syrokou, True Colours

“I have seen so many girls in my life, but she is a woman. Hope to meet her soon.”
― Vidushi Gupta, The Unending Maze: Because Finding Your Way Out Has Never Been More Difficult

“I'm never afraid, I'm just preparing for pain.”
― Hazel Manuel, The Geranium Woman

“I want to create something of genuine and lasting value that we can all be proud of because what we are doing is intrinsically good...”
― Hazel Manuel, The Geranium Woman

“Truth in itself is simple. We find it by cutting out the complications.”
― Hazel Manuel, Kanyakumari

“May this not be a moment, but a movement.”
― Robert Whitlow, A Time to Stand

“Sometimes reminders are a way of not forgetting that good can come with the bad, and by remembering the good parts you can start to let go of the bad parts.”
― Charity Jackson, Letting Go

“I finally spoke, my voice trembling. “Hello…Son. I love you. I made you. I’m your God. I will always be there for you. I will do everything I can to keep you safe.”

My love for him was so strong.

Adam just looked at me, intrigued. He then smiled and opened his arms in a wide embrace. I started crying, feeling his tight hold over me.

He then released his grip and said one word: “Daddy.”
― Best Selling Author Sunshine Rodgers, The Creation Project

“Peter smiles. 'You can't fight the elements. Wind and water always win. Even against stone. It's why we have the Grand Canyon and the Arches in Utah and Niagara Falls. You can't tame the waves and you can't hold back the wind. You've got to move with it. But that's not to say you have to let it take you wherever it will. Think of a sailboat. The wind moves it, but it's not what steers it. The captain of the ship decides where it will go. You're the captain of your ship.”
― Erin Bartels, The Words Between Us

“I am left with the scars. In time, they will fade and maybe one day they will heal, but for now they remain.
-Franny Harris (Life Fail)

I bet, Penny is on the sand walking along the shore wearing her old green flips – the ones I call her granny-flops. I wish I was there to make fun of those stupid shoes.
-Franny Harris (Life Fail)”
― Jul Winters

“The last of the Haworth trilogy: At the end of a long night shift, a bullying new father visits the maternity ward and brings back Linda's darkest nightmares, her terror of being locked in. Who is this man, and why does he scare her so? There are secrets dating back to the war that still haunt the family, and finding out what lies at their root might be the only way Linda can escape their murderous consequences.”
― Judith Barrow, Living in the Shadows: Howarth Family Saga Series Book 3

“That girl in the mirror wasn't me. that girl in the mirror had devoured me. Swallowed me whole.”
― Leslie Tall Manning, I am Elephant, I am Butterfly

“I thought of my mom, sitting on the sofa on a rainy Saturday afternoon, watching cable reruns of her favorite Little House on the Prairie series. Sometimes she'd cry. She would hold onto a tissue, and she would sob as she sat there on the couch. I asked her once why she was crying. She told me it was because the show made her happy.”
― Leslie Tall Manning, Upside Down in a Laura Ingalls Town

“I think the hardest part of writing fiction is getting over the fear of exposure. It can be terrifying to put your thoughts on paper. Much of fiction is taking real people and embellishing their defining characteristics until they are more interesting, more horrifying, more saintly, or simply more entertaining. Once you muster up the courage to put your thoughts and feelings into your characters and down on paper you are on your way.”
― Ann Ormsby, The Recovery Room

“Most of the writers working in the last fifty years are hacks with no talent whatsoever.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“She had been chasing after a dancing flame at her fingertips, one that changed shapes as it drew her.”
― E. C. Colton, Shards of Sky