Top 100 Adult Fiction Fiction Quotes
#1. Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.
Sarah Ockler
#3. Cause if you were my girlfriend and a stud like me was livin' in your house, I'd kiss you in front of the guy every chance I got as a reminder.
Simone Elkeles
#4. No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."
About Egg, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#5. You didn't just accidentally win my favor," I dispute, slowly shaking my
forehead against his.
"You earned it. Now, if I can just save your life twenty or thirty more times ... We might actually be able to call it even.
M.A. George
#6. Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.
J.D. Netto
#7. I always thought of the stars like a handful of gems that God randomly tossed across the sky, saying, 'Here, go wherever you please.
Chelsea Vanderbeek
#8. The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#9. I guess if you get too close, the twinkling stops; they don't look like stars anymore.
Graham Spaid
#10. I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#11. I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you.
Faith Sullivan
#12. I don't know who those other people are and what they did to you, but I'm not one of them," I whispered, on the verge of tears. (Molly)
"You are. You just don't know yet." (Victor)
A.B. Whelan
#13. I realise it's going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I've ever met, wants to kiss me.
Simone Elkeles
#15. I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty, and our music reflected that.
Brian Joyce
#16. Christy isn't a case, he's a person.
C. Kennedy
#17. How would you like to star in your very own commercial?"
"I'd rather swim in battery acid.
Robin Benway
#18. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#19. A female dragon's tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term 'Getting some tail' came from?
Sully Tarnish
#20. Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
Brittany Hawes
#21. Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.
T.S. Pettibone
#22. When Psyche got up to leave, Eros once again mentioned that he would miss her on Sunday."Even if you come on Sunday, I shall not be able to give you what you want. I shall be having my period then & it will be too messy for your liking," his secretary advised him.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#23. He licks his lips as his head tilts down toward me. My body goes wild. Frissons of electricity travel up and down my spine as the True Born leans down. His voice is silk in my ear. 'You're not with your parents now. No restrictions. How does that make you feel?
L.E. Sterling
#24. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#25. Mai whispers, "Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe."
"You of all people," Nicholas says, "should know that freedom is more important than being safe.
E.J. Squires
#26. It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in
Tom Kavanagh
#27. I was too proud to show him how hurt I was.
Kate Le Vann
#28. Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.
E.J. Stevens
#29. The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#30. Dirck bolted to his feet and peered out the window. It wasn't a storm. It was worse. An armored transport had stopped outside. Seven commandos, maybe more, stepped from its confines, each in shielded yellow armor, hostile in Zinni's searing light.
Marcha A. Fox
#31. Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There's no pearly gate, no prisms of colors as his soul slips away. The stillness is cold steel. The silence is empty with no memory to mend it.
Laura Kreitzer
#32. I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything.
Sarah Ockler
#33. Evangeline," he sighed. "It ain't ever goan to be easy with you, is it?
Kresley Cole
#34. You could've at least let me know you weren't dead by the way. I was actually kind of sad about that."
"That's a pretty incredible sentiment, coming from you.
Amy Tintera
#35. Not everyone is meant to be a writer," Shyla said. "I do believe, however, that everyone has a story within them to be written.
Barbara Casey
#36. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
Jennifer Walkup
#37. I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.
Cheryl Mendelson
#38. It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.
Kali Wallace
#39. The beaded purple top scooped low, showing off quite a bit of cleavage. And by quite a bit, I mean holy hell balls, that's a lot of boobage.
Cindi Madsen
#40. My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice
Catrina Burgess
#41. When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.
Monroe Ariel
#42. There the black horse stood - his feet planted firm on the ground, afraid to move. His coat was covered in sweat and a stark white rim lined his eyes. All three of us gawked at his sudden silence. The rattling metal gate was now the only sound.
Brittney Joy
#43. I think we're moving at the pace we were set to move in. That, not everyone lives to the same expectations in life and love. And we can only hope that the love we feel is the love we were meant to share. -Angelic Pierce
A. Lee Dright
#44. Can you put your hands on my crotch?"
"Why, hell no, I cannot." I didn't remember anything like this happening in Pride and Prejudice.
Jennifer Echols
#45. For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me.
If I hadn't known better, I'd have thought it was hope.
T.M. Frazier
#46. Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's.
Brian Joyce
#47. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I'm just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can't help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most ... Himself.
Lauren Hammond
#48. When sober, which he hadn't been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul."
Book 2 "Having it
Jamie Scallion
#49. You feel pretty ,manly to me," I breathed out, all jelly-legged with half-mast eyes.
"And you feel like a woman worthy of a fight, Ms.Greene.
L.J. Shen
#50. We attract to our lives what we desire most and our intent enhances our ability to ascend or may serve as a one-way-ticket to the lowest levels of conscientiousness where many enter and few to none come out.
Seraphine Abrams
#51. He'd promised her forever, but now that there was another option, would he want to take it? He'd said not, but Bessina had butterflies taking up residence in her stomach at the thought. She had to know for sure.
Inger Iversen
#52. But what if Oscar - "
"Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?"
"I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well."
"Then you shall make for a tasty meal.
Erica Sehyun Song
#53. She'd discovered the beginnings of her adult person, her preference for lucidity, prudence, responsibility, and restraint. Tranquility could be eked from boredom, results from hard work.
V.S. Kemanis
#54. She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.
Nancy Farmer
#55. Is it possible to fall in love at thirteen, because I think I just looked into the eyes of the girl I want to look at forever.
Danielle Rocco
#56. It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual?
Kirstie Collins Brote
#57. I spent the period reading the first novel assigned for English. And wow. If I hadn't realized I was in France yet, I do now. Because Like Water for Chocolate has sex in it. LOTS of sex.
Stephanie Perkins
#58. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#59. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.
Monroe Ariel
#60. She waits for his reprimand or words of disapproval.
He kisses her instead. Hard. Lips demanding, fingers tightening on her chin. He consumes her with this single act.
Laura Kreitzer
#61. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#62. The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.
Serena Schreiber
#63. She pulls her hand away and Damian feels the sensation of falling, a somersault into a foreign abyss where a girl with eggplant hair and a hoop in her brow waits in the darkness.
Christy A. Campbell
#65. They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.
Sarah Ockler
#66. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.
Lee Davidson
#67. Strange though, I never took you for a nympho.
Eve Masters
#68. I have trust issues."
"I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that.
Simone Elkeles
#69. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#70. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#71. Colours started to seep into his black and white life
Jamie Scallion
#72. Although the villagers rose with the sun to work the fields, attend to the animals, bake their bread, and begin their long list of chores, for me, Leya Truelong, this was a day like no other. Today, Wren River was touched by the fantastic.
Desiccate by Bonnie Ferrante
Bonnie Ferrante
#73. There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.
Taisha DeAza
#74. I don't mean to take the bow off the end of your rain, but you gotta be smart about your first boyfriend.
C. Kennedy
#75. The bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.
Evan Meekins
#76. We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren't equal.
Natalie Crown
#77. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan."
"I suspect I am a hooligan.
Simone Elkeles
#78. Jace's husky voice almost came out in a purr. He said, "You want to make a bet on that, Charlie." Oh yeah, he can sell that stuff alright. "No worries," Jace was saying. "I only have eyes for you." He touched the tip of my nose with his finger. I swatted him away. Jace laughed.
~Jace~
J.L. Clayton
#79. I'll give you what you want, Sloane," he said. "What we both want. But think long and hard before you come to me. There are things that I like. Things that I want and expect from the woman in my bed. And I don't play by anyone's rules but my own.
J. Kenner
#80. One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)
Shannon A. Thompson
#81. For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um ... please don't let your kids read my books. Well, unless your kids are in their 30s or something ... then yeah, they're old enough. LOL
Michelle M. Pillow
#82. Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.
Harley Brooks
#83. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#84. A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.
Orson Scott Card
#85. She then turned to Poseidon & with a large smile, asked him to undress her.Taken aback by such an unusual request, the young man baulked.She then begged him to undress her saying that the customers were now waiting to see her show.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#86. I could've gone on and on but the truth was all that mattered.
My brother died because someone was jealous.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#87. Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.
Marcha A. Fox
#88. Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.
Tick, tick, tick.
Laura Kreitzer
#89. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#90. Jake's in trouble.'
Luca rolled his eyes. 'What now?'
'He's gone off somewhere, I think I know where, and I don't think it's good.'
'Cant that boy ever stay in and watch telly like the rest of us?
Sharon Sant
#91. Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.
Jennifer Loiske
#92. The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon.
Kev Heritage
#93. He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.
Heidi Tankersley
#94. Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell Hooks
#95. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.
L.E. Horn
#96. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
Faith Sullivan
#97. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#99. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.
Caroline George
#100. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.
Faith Sullivan
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