122 Inspirational Fiction Quotes

In the world of literature, inspirational fiction stands as a beacon of hope and motivation, illuminating the path to self-discovery and personal growth. These stories, often imbued with profound wisdom and emotional depth, have the power to resonate deeply with readers, offering solace during difficult times and encouragement to pursue dreams. Our carefully curated collection of the top 122 inspirational fiction quotes is designed to uplift your spirit and ignite your imagination. Whether you’re seeking guidance, comfort, or a spark of creativity, these timeless words from beloved authors promise to inspire and transform, reminding us all of the incredible power of storytelling.

1. “I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?” - J.R.R. Tolkien

2. “One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.You must remember this.” - Neil Gaiman

3. “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” - Tim O'Brien

4. “In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.” - Eileen Favorite

5. “I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.” - Diane Setterfield

6. “If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.” - Richard Bach

7. “Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.” - L.J. Smith

8. “Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” - Khaled Hosseini

9. “The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...” - Bruno Bettelheim

10. “They weren't true stories; they were better than that.” - Alice Hoffman

11. “Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.” - Herman Wouk

12. “I don't watch reality TV, my reality is tough enough.” - Alisa Dana Steinberg

13. “The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought, broken into the dreary silence of her day. Sometimes I see an expression on Clare’s face that is like a closed door. She has gone inside the room of her mind and is sitting there knitting or something. I’ve discovered that Clare likes to be alone. But when I return from time traveling she is always relieved to see me.” - Audrey Niffenegger

14. “As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!” - Lauren Weisberger

15. “It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.” - Pauline Clarke

16. “The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.” - Milan Kundera

17. “You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.” - Neil Gaiman

18. “Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else."Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude” - Laurell K. Hamilton

19. “And to see the white flash of Klaus's eyes as he whirled on her. For one stunned instant she stared at him, and then lightning crackled.From an empty sky.” - L.J. Smith

20. “He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.**Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It had done nothing he had considered particularly entertaining, apart from emit interesting noises, and eventually, once the noises had stopped and the monkeys were no longer doing anything at all—except possibly on an organic level—had needed to be disposed of in the dead of night.” - Neil Gaiman

21. “Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life” - Martin Amis

22. “The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading” - Vladimir Nabokov

23. “Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.” - Meg Rosoff

24. “I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.” - Jennifer Donnelly

25. “Justice will prevail!” - Tsugumi Ohba

26. “I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...” - Jodi LaPalm

27. “That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.” - Walter Moers

28. “Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.” - J.R. Ward

29. “Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

30. “If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.” - Albert Camus

31. “I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows.” - E.M. Forster

32. “Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third of it and took a huge bite. Ivy watched, appalled, and I shrugged. His mouth moving as he hummed, Jenks finished unpacking the sacks. I was half dead, Ivy was whoring herself to keep me safe, but Jenks was okay as long as he had chocolate.” - Kim Harrison

33. “Plan B?' Ivy said. 'What is plan B?'Jenks reddened. 'Grab the fish and run like hell,' he muttered, and I almost giggled.” - Kim Harrison

34. “Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

35. “Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.” - Lauren Willig

36. “Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone.She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.” - Kate Chopin

37. “Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.” - Shusaku Endo

38. “The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.” - Arthur Nersesian

39. “If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room.” - Virginia Woolf

40. “I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.” - John Green

41. “The truth was stranger than the official fiction.” - Dean Koontz

42. “When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.” - Alice Hoffman

43. “How did you hear about that?''Are you kidding me? So far, I had that runt Kyle-''I hate him. I hate all vamps. That complete toad, Michael-''-tell me you were pregnant by a vamp-''kidnnaped me and-Kyle said WHAT?''and then a member of the Domi shows up and informs me-''The Domi sent someone HERE?''-that you're actually pregnant by the late king of the Fey.''Late?!' Heidar squeaked.” - Karen Chance

44. “Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things.” - Terry Pratchett

45. “Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.” - Christopher Moore

46. “Everything I know, I know because of love.” - Leo Tolstoy

47. “I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.” - Diana Wynne Jones

48. “If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.” - David Housholder

49. “It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.” - Jean Genet

50. “Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” - Ann Marie Aguilar

51. “The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” - Franklin P. Adams

52. “It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.” - Lawrence Thornton

53. “Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.” - Eudora Welty

54. “You know, one of the interesting things you find about writing fiction is that any fiction you write has to be political. Otherwise, it goes into the realm of fantasy. So like, if you write about a woman in America in 1910, if you don’t write that she can’t really control her property, that she can’t—doesn’t have any say over her children, that she can’t vote—if you don’t put that in it, then it’s a fantasy. Like, well, how is her life informed? That’s true about everybody. If you write about black people, you write about white men, I mean, it has to be political. A lot of people don’t realize that, it seems.” - Walter Mosley

55. “Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.” - John Fowles

56. “Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.” - Chuck Palahniuk

57. “Ο μυθιστοριογράφος σου δίνει να δεις από την κλειδαρότρυπα αυτά που δεν μπορείς να δεις διαφορετικά.” - Moravia Alberto

58. “There is fact in every fiction and truth in every lie.” - Krisi Keley

59. “I'm warning you. I'm going to get waxy. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else---" Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread.” - William Golding

60. “There was an image in my mind—an expectation of what it would be like when I finally gave myself fully to a man. It wasn’t like this. It was always at night with candles flickering lazily, music filling the air with a sexy melody, and maybe a bubble bath. But no. It was infinitely better, and there was no froo froo, stereotypical scene that played out. It was incredible. Brilliant. Amazing. Indescribable, really. Like all the planets in the galaxy aligned for a perfect moment in time. As if this was the beginning of time. From now until the rest of eternity, everything finally had meaning.” - Laura Kreitzer

61. “Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing and gagging at the amount of water I sucked into my lungs by pure shock. What was up with me and breathing in water? I needed to grow some gills or something.” - Laura Kreitzer

62. “The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in two directions. Half make a black storm of moving, twisting shapes. The other half forms a white-as-snow moving cloud. The ranks are divided.” - Laura Kreitzer

63. “I tapped around on my new Miracle Phone—a gift from Joseph—as I listened to the discussion about our next move. I wasn’t trying to be rude, but I’d recently become addicted to this one game on my Miracle Phone. Really, I was listening. I could multitask like no other. Trust me, there’s an app for that.” - Laura Kreitzer

64. “And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.” - Virginia Woolf

65. “I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.” - Maggie Stiefvater

66. “Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.” - Douglas Adams

67. “Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.” - Roman Payne

68. “I knew I would stay in this town when I found the blue enamel pot floating in the lake. The pot led me to the house, the house led me to the book, the book to the lawyer, the lawyer to the whorehouse, the whorehouse to science, and from science I joined the world.” - Leslie Daniels

69. “And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that a strange medication had been given him that enabled my brother to become even more of an enigma than he was before, and as a result of that there came to exist not only the machine and the inertia that came with it, but a change of perspective among the townsfolk that was a result of their interactions with the various phases of my brother. And so it was that when the flood began to rear its terrible head, not only was there the inertia that we all had to deal with, but a sense of the sublime that we had begun to feel for the waters which had roared upon the horizon.” - Justin Dobbs

70. “I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a make of car. Then, I thought, I had a measure, I could guage the quality of the writing by its accuracy, by the extent to which it aligned with my own impressions, or improved upon them. I was fortunate that most English writing of the time was in the form of undemanding social documentary. I wasn't impressed by those writers (they were spread between South and North America) who infiltrated their own pages as part of the cast, determined to remind poor reader that all the characters and even they themselves were pure inventions and the there was a difference between fiction and life. Or, to the contrary, to insist that life was a fiction anyway. Only writers, I thought, were ever in danger of confusing the two.” - Ian McEwan

71. “Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter , so long as there were souls for sale he was ready to buy ..” - Saira Viola

72. “She cries cuz shes lost and she doesn't even know what she wants. Her eyes grow cold as she begs the world to just let her go.lines from Love Vs Destiny...” - Atul Purohit

73. “It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as: "this book is for children from the ages of six to sixty." But I have never yet seen the puff of a new motor-model that began thus: "this toy will amuse infants from seventeen to seventy"; though that to my mind would be much more appropriate. Is there any essential connexion between children and fairy-stories? Is there any call for comment, if an adult reads them for himself? Reads them as tales, that is, not studies them as curios. Adults are allowed to collect and study anything, even old theatre programmes or paper bags.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

74. “The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.” - Evan Meekins

75. “They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits” - Evan Meekins

76. “there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done” - Evan Meekins

77. “With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.” - Evan Meekins

78. “We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.” - Evan Meekins

79. “If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better”.” - Alexandar Tomov

80. “One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...” - Gerald Haslam

81. “That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.There weren't any more hitches now. The story flowed like a torrent. The margin bell chimed almost staccato, the roller turned with almost piston-like continuity, the pages sprang up almost like blobs of batter from a pancake skillet. The beer kept rising in the glass and, contradictorily, steadily falling lower. The cigarettes gave up their ghosts, long thin gray ghosts, in a good cause; the mortality rate was terrible.His train of thought, the story's lifeline, beer-lubricated but no whit impeded, flashed and sputtered and coursed ahead like lightning in a topaz mist, and the loose fingers and hiccuping keys followed as fast as they could. ("The Penny-A-Worder")” - Cornell Woolrich

82. “Sais-tu pourquoi tu es ici, un samedi après-midi, au lieu d’être chez toi ?-Non, je ne le sais pas. Je ne me suis même pas posé la question. (…) –Parce que tu es un pro-lé-tai-re !, lui assena-t-il d’une voix forte.” - Fouad Laroui

83. “Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. "It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic." - The Demon Trapper's Daughter” - Jana Oliver

84. “When it comes to who will like your writing; the ones who will like it will like it because they can relate to the story or can find a piece of their own story hidden within - regardless of the mistakes. The ones who won't, never will - no matter what.” - Beverly S. Harless

85. “For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period. And trust me; I know you’re still in it.” Ian pulled open a drawer in a small brown cabinet.“Secondly, it could end very badly for me and I’d rather prevent that. Getting shot is not on my list of things to do today.” He wrapped his hand around the steel grip of his own weapon and removed it from the drawer.“And last but not least, if you plan to shoot me… Well, it’ll be a matter of which of us is quicker and has better aim.” A pleasant smile crossed his features and he casually waved the gun from side to side. “Do you want to risk it?” - Natasha McNeely

86. “But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.” - John Green

87. “And there it is! Bravo! I knew it was only a matter of time before Byron realized he had an audience. That man is simply incapable of keeping his shirt on when there are spectators. One Christmas Eve, he stripped his shirt off right in the middle of the choir's rendition of Oh Child of Bethlehem. Coincidentally, the next song was Come Let Us Adore Him and the imbecile actually launched into some interpretive dance.” - Kirt J. Boyd

88. “The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness.” - John Steinbeck

89. “If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery,” he informed, his tone steady and cold. “Is that explicit enough?”“Oh, don’t be so dramatic,” I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass.” - Laura Kreitzer

90. “War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.” - Bobbye L. Hudspeth

91. “You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased. 'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?” - Brandi Salazar

92. “The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.” - Nancy B. Brewer

93. “A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.” - M. J. Chrisman

94. “If you have a big heart, you will live a large life.” - Yvonne Jayne

95. “Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re bothproud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if you can.’‘Or even better, visit!’ said his mother, ‘our home isn’t completewithout you!” - Chris Tinniswood

96. “You know, in everyone’s life you go through just trying to learn what one times one is—one times one equals one.” - S.B. Redd

97. “I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.” - Michelle M. Pillow

98. “Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

99. “Mankind has a mandate to care for the earth and all that is within it, especially the animals, and an animal should never be placed in a position where he needs to be concerned about such things. But this is not that time.” - Tara Pollard

100. “Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest.” - Ryohgo Narita

101. “A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing” - Nicholas Sparks

102. “Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn’t enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they’re not even very good.” - David Foster Wallace

103. “For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.” - Amor Towles

104. “She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is not a girl's dress. It is solidly on the other side of the line outside of girlhood. It is a dress that says something big in a very quiet way; it is a dress that is talking to Alice right now, a dress that is making her feel possibilities never before considered, the possibility of perfume and pretty and dancing and boys. This dress is who she might be, only more so.” - Laura Harrington

105. “...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...” - John Geddes A Familiar Rain

106. “So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would?” I joked.I could only see Andrew's face in profile, but a grin overtook his earlier grim expression, and he laughed. “I draw the line at wearing women’s clothing.”“Are you sure?” I whispered seductively, nibbling on his earlobe.“That’s cheating,” he said, his breath hitching.I kissed down his neck. “If all else fails, I’ll never rule out using my womanly wiles.”“I refuse to be used as a pawn by my devious lover,” he countered, grinning.I abruptly pulled away from him. “Ah, well, it never hurts to try.” - Laura Kreitzer

107. “[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written.” - Pierre Bayard

108. “I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.” - Laura Kreitzer

109. “I suggest you leave now, or you’ll be tied down and gagged until the end of this meeting.”“Tie us down?”“And gag you,” Joseph cheerfully reminded them.” - Laura Kreitzer

110. “Without making a conscious decision to do so, Drew grabbed a fistful of her ridiculous blond wig and tugged.Some of her hair came with it and he felt a moment of satisfaction when she howled. Bianca’s real hair was a matted mess against her head. He looked at the wig in his hand and moved his gaze to the water fountain.Bianca’s eyes widened. “Don’t do it. Don’t you dare.” “Don’t do what? Don’t do this?” He dangled the wig above the fountain.She raised her hands and crept toward him. “Just give it back, Drew, and we’ll be even. Okay?”“Aaawww, is Bianca getting worried? Poor baby.”“Come on.”“Say you’re sorry.” He shook it up and down.“What? No way.”With a shrug, he tossed the wig into the water fountain.” - Lindy Zart

111. “Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.” - Rudyard Kipling

112. “It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.” - Brandon Mull

113. “If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!” - I.R. Shankar

114. “. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.” - Courtney Giardina

115. “I wonder, what kind of life would I have had if it hadn’t been for my mother’s tea-and-cookie parties? Perhaps it’s because of them that I’ve never thought of women as my enemies, as territories I have to conquer, but always as allies and friends - which I believe is the reason why they were friendly to me in turn. I’ve never met those she-devils you hear about: they must be too busy with those men who look upon women as a fortress they have to attack, lay waste and left in ruins.” - Stephen Vizinczey

116. “I'm a minicamp body in 102-degree heat getting screamed at by the only other man my size: a middle-aged receivers coach they call Bow Wow.” - Christopher Harris

117. “Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.” - Emma Donoghue

118. “He's probably somewhere right now eating a Big-N-Tasty. The man has a coffee pot, a microwave, AND a mini refrigerator in his classrooom. If you plan on having a conversation with him, I suggest you do it over the phone. Otherwise, you'll need a motorcycle helmet just to avoid the Snickers shrapnel flying from his mouth!” - Piper Faust

119. “You can't show me the Earth from space and fly right past the moon, entice me into this magical machine and invite me to come with you, and then ask me to stay behind!” - Elizabeth Newton

120. “They are my men and this ship my responsibility. I vowed no woman would ever alter my path. Yet I kept them from ending you, and it makes me sick to the gut, for I would still rather die myself than see one hair on your head damaged by another man.” - Saskia Walker

121. “Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.Normal Life. He didn’t even know what that would be now.” - Shelley K. Wall

122. “The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.” - G.K. Chesterton