Issue Driven Fiction Quotes

#1. Truth was like an exploding star: violent, glitteringly beautiful. Now that I had seen it, felt it, it was impossible to settle for anything less.

Marie Rutkoski

#2. In battle nothing is ever as good or as bad as the first reports of excited men would have it.

William Slim

#3. Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods trimmed in white fur. Who and what they were I know not, for I preferred not to learn, lest by chance they should not be so mediaeval as they looked.

Henry James

#4. Pigpen pulls off the gravel road near the house and severs the engine. I go to open the door and he stops me. "Talk to me a second, and I don't mean me talking and you nodding your head like that's acceptable conversation.

Katie McGarry

#5. The absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Like a painter, a filmmaker should change their format, their support, despite their career they shouldn't be stuck in a system that is stuck in the past.

Marion Vernoux

#7. There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.

Amy Hatvany

#8. We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future.

Kate Skylark

#9. Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

#10. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Amy Hatvany

#11. Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective.

Dan Simmons

#12. Oh well, I'll be sure to pick you up again somewhere. It isn't a very big island, and you are a conspicuous object, driving round it.' This was true. So long as I was on that island I could not hope to escape Charlotte. I entered Binz in a state of moody acquiescence. Every

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#13. To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything.

Beryl Markham

#14. Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience.

Jim Lawless

#15. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany