“Notice how you get most mad when the truth is something you don’t like?”
Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles
Category: Quotes
“Look, an image is there in front of you. Right? You stare at it but then you can look away and it’s gone,” she said. “Words aren’t like that. They build an entire world around you. It’s not something you look at, it’s something you’re inside. That makes it scarier.”
The Upside of Falling by Alex Light
Why books are scarier than movies
“Darling, I think you would have turned out the same—just as lovably hard-boiled, driven, and obstinate as you are right now.”
Lucie wanted to smack him and kiss him, for being so observant, for picking the very qualities about her that she admired yet worried that others found off-putting.
Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic by Lauren Ho
The words you want to hear
Would my book, my words, be different if I were a murderer, for example?” Cain asks carefully. I think about it for a moment. “Words have meaning. I suppose who the author is, what he’s done might change that meaning.”
“Isn’t meaning more to do with the reader?”
“No…a story is about leading a reader to meaning. The revelation is theirs, but we show them the way. I suppose the morality of the writer influences whether you can trust what they are showing you.”
“Even if you don’t know what they’ve done?”
“Especially if you don’t know. If you are aware, then you can account for it in your interpretation of the work. Is it a manipulation, a defence? Is it an expression of guilt?”
The Woman In The Library by Sulari Gentill
Making meaning
The next time you have a quarrel with me, I’d appreciate it if you could just talk to me first before resorting to pelting me with rocks.
Angelfall by Susan Ee
Doomsday diplomacy
“You look pretty,” Belle cooed when I put it on. “But also like you could kill a man.” I’ll take it.
From Little Tokyo, With Love by Sarah Kuhn
Mixed compliments
Luna sighed. “Do you worry at all about making the wrong choice?”
“Duh, we all make wrong choices. Doesn’t mean I’m going to just sit here and do nothing.”
An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan
Taking action
Diversions of ease
Cool your sorrow—we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart—water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.
Dune by Frank Herbert
I didn’t know the first thing about how to end a relationship. Where would you learn such a thing? My dogs had always stayed with me, even Penny, whom I had done my best, in her declining years, to ignore.
Good Boy by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Learning endings
“Yes, I have a bard, but she’s entirely truthful. We’re nice people. Well, we try to be. We’re not perfect, but we’re not evil. We’re good, most of the time.”
“Bang-up job you’re doing on the oration here,” Matt muttered. “Might as well tell them we’ll only murder half of them.”
So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens
My Book Joy 