Top 44 Adult Non Fiction Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. You know I'm always ready to indulge your fantasies.
Faith Sullivan
#5. 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
#7. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#8. Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend.
Faith Sullivan
#9. Sometimes we need to step away from our current reality in order to truly appreciate it.
L.E. Horn
#10. Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.
Bell Hooks
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Magic is all about words and believing. If you believe then anything is possible.
Jennifer Loiske
#14. 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
#15. You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Jeannie Walker
#16. I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.
Jeannie Walker
#17. Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.
Jeannie Walker
#20. If I wasn't sure before, I'm sure now that she poisoned him to death. I'm also fairly sure she had help killing him, and by God, I'm going to prove it, if it's the last thing I ever do.
Jeannie Walker
#21. Writing for children can be completely honest in non-cynical ways. In adult books you're required to be cynical. It embarrasses us to say positive things. You can have affection and hope in children's books, but that is out of fashion in adult fiction.
Lloyd Alexander
#22. Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be.
Deanna Lynn Sletten
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Colours started to seep into his black and white life
Jamie Scallion
#29. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#30. 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
#31. I have trust issues."
"I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that.
Simone Elkeles
#32. Strange though, I never took you for a nympho.
Eve Masters
#33. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.
Lee Davidson
#34. No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.
Bella James
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.
Henry Mosquera
#39. 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
#40. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.
Monroe Ariel
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
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