fiction

I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica

Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.The only legitimate of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so enigmatic, so burdensome, so fascinating, so dangerous--so full of hope. They exist! And this is the only fundamental truth of fiction.

As I lay there watching Robin sleep beside me, I realized that she was right all along. I didn__ need to live in a castle _ a shack in the woods with her would do just fine. And for that matter, I didn__ need to be prince of the ocean either, because with her by my side_ I was king of the pond.

Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn__ every life important?

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.

Not everyone can be rich,' Peter went on. 'Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave! If we tell ourselves we can do it; if we say to our hearts, 'don't jump about'; if we carry ourselves like heroes... we can all be brave! We can all look Danger in the face and be glad to meet it, and draw our swords and say, 'Have at you, Danger! You don't scare me!' Courage is just there for the taking; you don't need money to buy it. You don't need to go to school to learn it! Courage is the thing, isn't it? Don't you think so, people? Aren't I right? Courage is the thing! All goes if courage goes!

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

You're not safe with me."He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone.

As a fiction writer I am not always sure where reality ends and non reality begins, when sane thoughts become less than sane, or what is imagination versus undiscovered truth, but ultimately, it is my job to make you as unsure as I am.

What are you doing?_ Egnatious asked, eyebrows furrowed as he watched Gabriella do a flip.Firen mimicked Gabriella and turned to Egnatious. __un times. Go with it._ She didn__ even crack a smile, though her body language said she was laughing on the inside.Instead of following their act, Egnatious simply dove for an outcrop just as it began moving away. He nearly lost his balance, but Firen caught his flailing arms.__re you having a seizure or something?_ she jested, displaying a rare vein of humor.Egnatious sent her a queasy glare.

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Sick is a relative concept. We__e all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

Why worry, if today be sweet'?

From Chloe's Secret--coming soon__hat are you saying?_____ saying I want to have a relationship with you. I want to love you.___s there a __ut_ coming next?___ut the funny thing is, when I didn__ want to love you__t happened anyway.__e slipped his arms into my back pockets and hugged the breath out of me. I choked, my eyes stung. __ don__ know what to say.__e smiled. __ay whatever you want to. Just because I said it, you don__ have to.__e was right; I didn__ have to. He wasn__ asking anything of me.