Latest Quotes

“I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.”

— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)

“I've started dreaming of Portland again.”

— Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“The Hegemony Consul sat on the balcony of his ebony spaceship and played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C-sharp Minor on an ancient but well-maintained Steinway while great, green, saurian things surged and bellowed in the swamp below.”

— Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)

“The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was no enjoying himself.”

— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

“This is what happened.”

— Stephen King, The Mist

“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my other decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“He began his new life standing up, surrounded by cold darkness and stale, dusty air.”

— James Dashner, The Maze Runner (Book 1)

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ.”

— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“I wore a black suit and a white shirt, a black tie and black shoes, all polished and shiny: clothes that normally would make me feel uncomfortable, as if I were in a stolen uniform, or pretending to be an adult.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

“The buzz in he street was like the humming of flies.”

— Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike)

“There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire.”

— Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“Patrick worked the day shift at Zoney's GoMart one Wednesday a month: sealed into the vacuum-packed chill behind the convenience store's dirty plate-glass windows, watching cars zoom by on the highway while he stood still.”

— Kelly Braffet, Save Yourself: A Novel

“I pace in our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget.”

— Veronica Roth, Allegiant (Divergent Series)

“'There are places you can go,' Ariana tells him, 'and a guy as smart as you has a decent chance of surviving to eighteen.'”

— Neal Shusterman, Unwind (Unwind Dystology)

“When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“My sweater was new, singing red and ugly.”

— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“There is a pile of clothing on the side of the train tracks.”

— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel

“So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell ring.”

— Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart: A Novel

“Twenty minutes after the war ends, I'm watching stumpers pour up out of a frozen hole in the ground like ants from hell and praying that I keep my natural legs for another day.”

— Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

“I warn you that what you're starting to read is full of loose ends and unanswered questions.”

— Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Novel