Best Literary Fiction Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You were disrespectful to a god I follow,” Eufame said to Bonnyman. “I would protect him—”

“The doorways into hell are mostly inside the mind.”

“I don't want to be caught with my pants down.”

“It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.”

“The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth.”

“It’s a divorce, not cancer.”

“The seclusion of this ranch house threatened to take her breath away, but she managed to smile. So this is what it’s like to be a country girl.”

“Every day is a battle. Still. She doesn’t need this…this mess. The nightmares. She doesn’t deserve what I’d put her through. And she probably wouldn’t stick around anyway. Who would?”

“Chase looked like a drowning man without a life preserver, and by the look in his eyes, he was going under for the third time.”

“if you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true – this is an old idea, of course, it really is nothing new, but you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.”

“It is true we enjoy self-government, but we live in fear. We find ourselves in the paw of a lion. Convenience may induce him to crush us, and with a faint struggle, we may cease to be.”

“I know he says it’s a mind upload problem,” said Aideen. “But we won’t know that for sure until we get there. And maybe not even then if he restricts our access to the outside world of 2253.”

“Life does not ask who is ready; it simply calls, and only the awake respond".”

“Speak not, O Wind! for silence is the tongue of stars.”

“Nature has a way of disrupting predictability to introduce us to our true selves.”

“Love, like yellow flowers, was slowly shedding its petals, surrendering to time.”

“When the heart bends towards truth, distance shortens. When it hardens, even light cannot reach it.”

“Wouldn’t the joys of life lose all colour, if life was eternal?”

“True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn't thicker than water.”