353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

As usual, however, those who strive to understand have no power to act.

I don't need a crystal ball to see into the future, although they are quite beautiful.

In wakefulness she slept. In sleep, she woke up.

It didn't stoop because it didn't know how to.

Because, you know—I’m starting to figure this out, and yes, it may be too late—what is love, after all, what is life, but a striving against, and not settling for, our inevitable doom? What is it if it’s not a constant assertion of our longing for home, for intimacy, in the face of our unfathomable annihilation?

She’d taken her environment so much for granted, unaware that things inevitably change, and so they did.

I speak of the laws man has made, to make everyone lawful.

And then, whatever you yearn for may indeed become a weakness or an open wound... if you make it the only standard by which you live your life.

War is the enemy of both men and women, it kills men’s pride and shatters women’s dignity.