Historical Ficton Quotes & Sayings

If you think girls are supposed to object to sex until they find themselves incapable of resisting your magic penis, fuck you. — Anna Kendrick

FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then begins, little by little, to bleed real blood until, in the end, the blood turns out to be our own. I read it nearly thirty years ago in its previous incarnation as Mood Indigo and I loved it then; it's still one of my favorite books in the whole world — Jim Krusoe

I must decide if you deserve to die. — Janet Morris

It is a practical world, Mr. Owen, and we have to do practical things. — John D. MacDonald

I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content. — Veronica Roth

I am strong as steel and my roots are planted deep in this southern soil. Time may have weathered me, but I will always bend with the wind — Nancy B. Brewer

To her, it was an article of faith: any woman with talent owes it to herself, and to her gender, to make the most of her potential. — Martin Edwards

No permanence is ours; we are a wave
That flows to fit whatever form it finds — Hermann Hesse

You have a wife?" Caxton demanded.
"I killed a vampire twenty years ago, and another one last night. I had to keep myself busy in the meantime," he told her. — David Wellington

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right. — Bum Phillips

There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized by the chanting in the room beside him; Mary Moe, Jane Doe, the girl from Migdal in Galilee turned hooker in the big city. The original whore with the heart of gold. Used to be a nice Jewish girl, and the next thing you know, she's fucking the buckos of the Tenth Legion Fratensis, fucking the pilgrims who'd made their sacrifice at the Temple and were ready to party, the odd priest and Levite on the sly.
Maybe she was smart and funny. Certainly always on the lookout for the right guy to take her out of the life. Like a lot of whores, she tended towards religion. So along comes Jesus Christ, Mr. Right with a Vengeance, Mr. All Right Now! Fixes on her his hot, crazy eyes and she's all, Anything, I'll do anything. I'll wash your feet with my hair. You don't even have to fuck me. — Robert Stone

Aren't you going to introduce me to your friends? Especially the handsome ones? Simon — Cassandra Clare

If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living? — Noam Chomsky

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. — J. Donald Walters