Upmarket Commercial Fiction Quotes

#1. She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.

Peadar O'Guilin

#2. Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#3. Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#4. His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#5. I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

Sherman Hemsley

#6. And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#7. You have not failed until you quit trying.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Carl Jung

#9. It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

Geoff Ryman

#10. To seek is to show valor. To endure is to show strength. To believe all will arise in a time of perfection. There shows trust and faith in you.

Tania Elizabeth

#11. It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. How Lilliputian all those anxieties were, how serene that time!

Stefan Zweig

#13. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#14. ...forever meant different things to people at different times. They could imagine what infinity looked and felt like as much as they wanted, but could never truly grasp its meaning nor bear its full weight.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#15. Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#16. I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.

Santosh Kalwar

#17. It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#18. Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

Henry Ward Beecher

#19. They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way.

Isaac Asimov