Novel In Verse Quotes

#1. Vampire Diaries instead of Supernatural?
(Bad choice.)

Madeleine Kuderick

#2. Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. 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

#4. When in doubt, start from the top.
-Jason Grace

Rick Riordan

#5. I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

Madeleine Kuderick

#6. As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.

Debbie Ford

#7. Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months
unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

Dave Barry

#9. See this?" Isa pulled something dark and oblong out of her purse. Chance's mouth twitched.
"Turbo Vagisil?"
"No, it's a taser!

Jeaniene Frost

#10. I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love -

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#11. I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#12. I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.

Charles De Lint

#13. Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too.
They make up your crown, he said.

Jeannine Atkins

#14. This time James Swindler strode into the room. It had always irritated Jack that Swindler had the uncanny knack to give the impression he belonged, regardless of the surroundings. He'd probably look comfortable strolling through Buckingham Palace.

Lorraine Heath

#15. Not everyone can be as suave as you are."
"But they all dream of it."
"Well we all need unattainable goals. Gives us something to strive for.

Nichole Chase

#16. Writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.

Virginia Woolf

#17. Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Ellen Hopkins

#18. over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian in verse, precursor of the modern novel, and, finally, altissimo poeta, the consummate poet.

Peter S. Hawkins

#19. Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#20. Everything is permissible' - but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23).

Lysa TerKeurst

#21. And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Barbara Castle

#22. Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.

Stasia Ward Kehoe