163 Quotes About Contemporary-fiction

Sometimes a beautiful woman had to do nothing more than smile to make you forget about any ugliness.

Il tempo è solo un'invenzione umana, una comoda unità di misura che regola il trascorrere della storia e dell'esistenza di una persona e cambia secondo i punti di riferimento. Nessuna misurazione è in grado di calcolare l'intensità di una vita vissuta. Un giorno misura le ore, ma non il grado di felicità, la passione, l'emozione o il dolore con cui sono trascorse.

Outside the snow piled up like insulation, and he took her hand. Her breath made little clouds that merged with the little clouds of his breath." (Visible Wounds)

Thank God there are placeswith sounds that make me cryfrom beauty,not from pain.

I sit on a foldaway chair at the lakeside, sipping hot cocoa and admiring the sunset behind distant clouds, pondering my next novel, which will be more truth than fiction. More memoir than tale. It will begin at the Third Garden and end here at Little Loch Broom, floating on a leaf over clear water, a bared soul visible to all those who would desire a glimpse of a childhood most extraordinary.

They dumped him in the orphanage as dust and dirt swirled in fierce desert winds howling like jackals. It was a day when hawks flew against the wind without making headway, hovering over him, preparing for the kill. As if he were their helpless prey. And that was how he felt. Helpless.

He hadn't moved. All the crazy-hot activity in the kitchen—waitresses going in and out, cooks going back and forth, the constant thump of barbecue being hand-chopped—and he was so still. She had to quickly turn away. Staring at an Alexander man too long was like staring at the sun. The image became imprinted. You could close your eyes and still see him.

You want me to change overnight, Katie, and I’m telling you right now that it’s not going to happen. You're asking me to forget years of abuse in a matter of days.

And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away.