353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

Over the years Breece had lectured that truth was liquid. That it evaporated in the heat of passion, froze in the cold of fear, and bent itself around virginous, unpurposeful fibs. It could churn and pull you under, drown you in itself, or let you ride upon it like a surf. But truth was always relfective. It showed blackheads and blemishes, fat rolls and sags, scabs and scars. Truth was fearful, angry and dangerous, and that was why so many people did their utmost to avoid it.

Elsa's mother no longer spoke to her of men and love, but of duty and fate and accepting one’s burden. As far as Elsa could tell, if love really was the inherited female domain, then women were saddled with the biggest burden of all. It was pressing down upon them, the way the sea pressed down upon the creatures of the deep.

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American writer!"---Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, on Sandcastle and Other Stories

Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.

Even in my dreams I would steal the wings from birds and try to fly, orgrow the lithe legs of a hare so I could race across a moonlit field. Mostlymy dreams consisted of sinking into the wet-black below my feet, right upto my neck, and I’d wake just before my head was covered in darkness.

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 things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.

Needs are stronger than liking.