163 Quotes About Contemporary-fiction

Congratulations," she said. "You win.

I always feel apprehensive when someone reads my work for the first time. Most writers are probably the same, with a desperate need to be liked – preferably expressed as lavish praise and uncritical admiration.

After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.

Still speaking over me,' she says, meeting my eyes and scoffing. 'You are still that worthless little girl.

Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one.

Salmon swim upstream to mate. All my life I had been swimming downstream. Don't tell me I was a salmon?

Truth in itself is simple. We find it by cutting out the complications.

I am left with the scars. In time, they will fade and maybe one day they will heal, but for now they remain.-Franny Harris (Life Fail)I bet, Penny is on the sand walking along the shore wearing her old green flips – the ones I call her granny-flops. I wish I was there to make fun of those stupid shoes.-Franny Harris (Life Fail)

My mother clutches at the collar of my shirt. I rub her back and feel her tears on my neck. It's been decades since our bodies have been this close. It's an odd sensation, like a torn ligament knitting itself back, lumpy and imperfect, usable as long as we know not to push it too hard.