Urban Lit Quotes

#1. Nature was beautiful, even in her tears

Jerome K. Jerome

#2. I loved fighting ... It gave me the opportunity to prove myself, to stand up and say, 'I'm the best. I matter. I am.'

Joe Frazier

#3. A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. If she couldn't be with Harlen in Washington, DC, this was the place to be.
Sera's mobile screen lit, and she glanced down to find a text from him: I have to pee.

Erin Kellison

#5. If you are competing with slaves, then you are a slave yourself.

Bryant McGill

#6. Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Kelly LeBrock

#7. My heart hurt to see her in pain and, for one second, i shut down all emotion. One day, she'd figure out she was too good for a loser like me and when she left, i didn't know how i'd deal with the pain. Hell, she was worth it. I enfolded her into my body once more, kissing the side of her neck.

Katie McGarry

#8. i wish cats could float around your head

Megan Boyle

#9. At the sight of Day, her whole face lit up.
"Mikhail! You came! Barbara said you would, but that we might have to wait for hell to freeze over first. Did it?

Deborah Blake

#10. Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy

#11. The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.

Benedict Of Nursia

#12. Keep The Drama In Your Books, Not Your Life." - The Cartel Publications.

T. Styles

#13. The web is a meritocracy, where passion and persistence are what place us in positions of influence.

Anonymous

#14. But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I'll find a way to kill you this time."
His eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he'd accepted a challenge I didn't even know I'd laid down. "I'd expect nothing less."
Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.

Pippa DaCosta

#15. Everything is really something else in disguise. Of course she was no exception, she reminded herself. Everybody would assume that she was there as the Childersins' novelty pet, or as a Perfume-detector. Nobody would guess that she was there to look for the person who had stolen her history.

Frances Hardinge

#16. He took me down and out into the afterlife of the brightly lit streets, a haze of rain around each streetlight like a galaxy, the whole street a universe spread out like a banquet.

Michael Montoure

#17. Travelling on the known path is intelligence;
travelling on an unknown path is boldness.
Making your own path is greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#18. Sidheag could be quite crass, the result of having been raised by men, or Scots, or soldiers, or werewolves, or all four.

Gail Carriger

#19. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.

Tupac Shakur