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The logic of limitless probability — Rob Kircher

Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever. — Megan Duke

Have you ever believed in something so completely that you were willing to give up everything and everyone in your life to protect it? — Thomas Sweeney

Could I be jealous of the way he was touching my horse? Yep ... I was. — Carly Kade

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it — Warren Ellis

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway? — Brian Joyce

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better of ourselves — Chuck Palahniuk

If music were wind, I would live in a hurricane. — Jessica Bell

If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate. — Kailin Gow

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting. — Mark Zero

Popularity is like a girl in class that you can't ignore. She give you eyes when no one looks then turns to her friends and laughs some more. — Brian Joyce

Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing. — Petra March

I do what I do because I am who I am. Don't make me over. — Danee Riggs

Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry — Jane Rainwater

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother. — Linda Joyce

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen. — Faith Sullivan

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Couples swayed and embraced to the beat as the singer's vocals soared above a group of confused teenagers and twenty-something's. — Brian Joyce

Have sex with Adam? I'd rather grab a defibrillator paddle and burn the other side of my face. — Faith Sullivan

Don't underestimate the good in you — Elif Shafak

Just your being here justifies that what I feel for you is strong enough to endure anything. — Faith Sullivan

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

How can you be kissing at a time like this? Have you no respect for the dead? — Mark Zero

Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3? — Tara Ford

Lovemaking is more than sex, it's a connecting of hearts, meeting of minds, & touching of souls." ~ Dr. Scott Hensley — Pamela S. Thibodeaux

I jolt up, a scream lodged in my throat. Drops of sweat roll down my forehead and my throat hurts as if I've been screaming for a long time. — Ashley Earley

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life."
Patricia Briggs. — Demetra Angelis Foustanellas

If you want vampires and werewolves, faeries, fallen angels or zombies, you won't find them here. I know a real-life monster. — Stephanie Lawton

We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it. — Stephanie Perkins

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.
Because he loved her. — Becky Wade

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I'm going to make love to you, Lanie. I'm not your first, but I will be the last. — Flora Roberts

I sort of figured we'd be dating. It makes things like sharing a room a little easier. — Faith Sullivan

Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last. — A.M. Willard

It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around. — Megan Duke

They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us. — Goldy Moldavsky

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. — Brian Joyce

I wanted to be ready.
I had thought I was ready.
I really believed I was ready.
That is, until the milk came. — Kathryn Michaels

It'd been a long time since they'd been together, but as close as they were physically, they'd never been so far apart in every other way. — Jennifer Faye

All writers are manipulative liars.
Jack O. Savage, The Poet — Hunter S. Jones

There's no better way to get to know a person than through their art. — Tessa Emily Hall

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science. — Barbara Kingsolver

In high school I was drawn to the study of literature, poetry Shakespeare, contemporary fiction, drama, you name it - I read it. — Frederick Lenz

Is freedom a lateral component, or a vertical one? — Rick Bass

I'm a big man, sugar. When I come down on a woman, I want soft, not a bundle of sticks that I might break." - Logan — Cherise Sinclair

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane. — Shaun David Hutchinson

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen. — Gayle Forman

She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all? — S. Elle Cameron

Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain. — Stasia Ward Kehoe

I'd love to wake up next to you in this room, in this bed, every day. — Faith Sullivan

Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Contemporary American fiction has become cheap counseling to the bereaved bourgeois. — Anis Shivani

If you want the extra-ordinary, you've got to be willing to forsake the ordinary' - Annie Grimes in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots — D.M. Lee

For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living — Priscille Sibley

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like? — Venita Ellick

Katie, when I saw you again, there was nothing I wanted to do more than stand by your side for the rest of my life. — Faith Sullivan

We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn't make them any less painful. — Nicki Salcedo

Congratulations," she said. "You win. — Megan Duke

Rumor has it: when you marry a Walsh you are set for life. Only one thing can screw it up. — Jessica Gordon

My heart was divided for so long. Now I'm able to give you every part of me. You deserve nothing less. — Faith Sullivan

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ... — Megan Johns

Every minute I decide not to kill you is a minute your life is saved. You owe me everything. — Christina L. Barr

Winter passed, spring arrived, hope faded. — I.J. Sarfeh

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy — Jennifer Gold

I promise to keep my hands to myself. I'm too exhausted to make a move on you. — Faith Sullivan

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium. — Stephanie Perkins

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available. — Brian Joyce

Irrationality is part of everyday rationale — Elif Shafak

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything. — Faith Sullivan

He's an idiot for letting you walk away in that dress tonight. — Kelly Stevenson

Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune with my own. — Hunter S. Jones

He thinks he's comforting a friend after a bad breakup. Little does he know-he's the one who's breaking my heart. — Faith Sullivan

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live. — Megan Duke

Sometimes a beautiful woman had to do nothing more than smile to make you forget about any ugliness. — Bart Hopkins

Well if it isn't little miss 'Call Me Maybe' back from the dead. — Faith Sullivan

It's not the bloody carrots that upset me. It's having them sneaked into my food by a madwoman who addresses the cutlery as Mr and Mrs Fork. — Jojo Moyes

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore. — Hunter S. Jones

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free. — Brian Joyce

Ava glanced over at Napoleon, who was walking back toward them. She smirked at Juliet and said, "Sweetie, you are *not* the one. — Jay Fingers

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction. — William March

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV. — Gail Carson Levine

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail. — K.F. Breene

Your lips are the only stimulant I need. — Faith Sullivan

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

Chemistry's a tricky thing, and if I'm not feeling it, I'm not gonna pretend. — Faith Sullivan

I turn to contemporary fiction seeking a shared awareness with the writer of the cultural moment we both occupy, its peculiar challenges. — Jennifer Egan

He is who he is, but it's not enough for me. I want more. I don't want him for just a night. I want him beside me every night. — Faith Sullivan

Does Playboy still run fiction?"
"I have absolutely no idea, Melinda," he said, grinning. — Robyn Carr

If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better. — Alexandar Tomov

There have been times I have thought some dreams should never be dreamt, but I would hate a world where that was true. — Daniel Amory

Fair enough ... No inhaling battery acid," I smirk. "We can't breathe battery
acid, can we? — M.A. George

I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. — Mary E. Pearson

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. — Jean Thompson

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary. — Jeff Goldblum

If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back. — Faith Sullivan

I uttered the wisest thing that you must say to an angry woman - "I'm sorry. — Mita Jain

It's in the past. I can't control what they did, only how I react to it. I'm not going to change who I am because of what some jack offs think of me. — Magan Vernon

..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be... — Nadia Hashimi

We don't always get what we want. And sometimes, when we do, it's not worth the price. — Stephanie Lawton