3,834 Quotes About Fiction

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me think more highly of her, except the reason she objected was because she didn’t believe women would do anything like that. Parliament rewrote the law so it was specific to men, and she signed it. A tribute to enlightenment, Queen Victoria was not. Neither, as I have observed before, are werewolf packs.

Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

There was part of me listening that didn’t think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie."("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.")

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Easy. Peasy