“Okay, here’s one: If you could know the answer to any one single question, what would it be?”— Alice Adams, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“The most symptomatic challenge we face in our daily lives is trying to mentally bridge the gaps between our coexisting truths.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“Time is a tricky thing, Daniel said to his mother when he was still very young.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I’ve started to drive more cautiously since I was told I only have six months to live.”— Edward St. Aubyn, amazon.com
“If you were not able to attend my twentieth birthday party, you missed a fabulous cake.”— Andie Mitchell, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.”— Sloane Crosley, amazon.com
“I dreamed I awakened in a valley where no life stirred, no cry of a fox sparked up out of stillness; a night of ashes.”— John Gardner, amazon.com