Novelette Submissions Quotes & Sayings

Could it really happen like this?" he asked. "That a girl like you can make me feel ... " "Make you feel what?" "Make me feel," he said. — Judy Blundell

The joy of a return is worth the price one pays at the moment of departure. — Andrea Bocelli

Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suicide bombs. We are very gentle people. All we do is use words to talk about things like the cosmos, the origin of the universe, evolution, the origin of life. What's there to be frightened of? It's just an opinion. — Richard Dawkins

I am a vegetarian, and I sort of aspire to vegan-hood. So far I've noticed no difference at all in my climbing, but I feel a bit healthier overall. Though that's only because I'm eating more fruits and vegetables. I think the whole protein thing is overhyped. Most Americans eat far more than we need. — Alex Honnold

To keep a secret is to lie every time."

La Vedette, Gloriella — Stephen Siciliano

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth - at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. — Eileen Claussen

Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters. — Terry Pratchett

It is perfectly possible to believe two contradictory things at one and the same time - that is one of the brilliant faculties of the human mind. — Simon Mawer

Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people. — William Gaddis

There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are incredibly talented, and also wonderful moms, they would be down on their knees right after a take to play with their kids. They're beautiful women inside and out, and that's what inspires me! — Bailee Madison

In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love
a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal
masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject. — Edward Hirsch

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it. — Helen Fisher

Now I knew. That friendship was over. Fucking hell. — Tijan