Latest Quotes

“Gérard spends his days thinking about the many reasons he hates America that include but are not limited to the people, the weather, having to drive everywhere and having to go to school every day.”

— Roxane Gay, Ayiti

“Early in the year 19, when Srinagar was under the spell of a winter so fierce it could crack men’s bones as if they were glass, a young man upon whose cold-pinked skin there lay, like a frost, the unmistakable sheen of wealth was to be seen entering the most wretched and disreputable part of the cit…”

— Salman Rushdie, The Prophet's Hair

“Paul did not yet feel her eyes on him.”

— James Baldwin, Come Out the Wilderness

“It's another exciting Friday night, and I'm curled up in bed — alone, of course — propped up by a sea of pillows, still in my lab coat, the sash so taut it's suffocating the purple silk dress beneath it, but I don't care.”

— Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You

“Yesterday, a piece of my house came off in my hands.”

— Meghan Daum, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

“In the year 1830, after the formation of Starways Congress, a robot scout ship sent a report by ansible: The planet it was investigating was well within the parameters for human life.”

— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead (The Ender Quintet)

“The most symptomatic challenge we face in our daily lives is trying to mentally bridge the gaps between our coexisting truths.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Human Element

“The night Effie Otcher was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through the woods just outside her father’s compound.”

— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing: A novel

“Time is a tricky thing, Daniel said to his mother when he was still very young.”

— Emily Giffin, First Comes Love: A Novel

“Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art.”

— David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto

“Call me Autolycus.”

— John Banville, The Blue Guitar: A novel

“I’ve started to drive more cautiously since I was told I only have six months to live.”

— Edward St. Aubyn, A Clue to the Exit: A Novel

“This car doesn’t feel like ours,’ I said.”

— Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel

“I’m thinking of ending things.”

— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“You’ll like my daughter,’ Peter told Emma, ‘no matter what she does to you. If she bites you.’”

— Roxana Robinson, This Is My Daughter: A Novel

“Our minds are small, but our hearts are big.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“If you were not able to attend my twentieth birthday party, you missed a fabulous cake.”

— Andie Mitchell, It Was Me All Along

“What if no one wants to mate with me?”

— Cherise Sinclair, Eventide of the Bear

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“She didn’t know what woke her, and no matter how many times she relived that night, no matter where the nightmare chased her, she never would.”

— Nora Roberts, The Obsession