Fiction Quote by Meg Rosoff

“Fifteen minutes later, Justin looks at his pint of blood with pride. He doesn't want it to go to some stranger, he almost wants…

— Cecelia Ahern

“You know what your problem is, Justina? You're in desperate need of a good shag. "Not that I'm offering you one myself, mind. My…

— Jeaniene Frost

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“The clerk tripped on the carpet, hit a window and went through, carrying with him a vase which had been on the sill. His…

— Steve Aylett

“But the very next moment, the boy’s excitement all died away. An unfamiliar pain began in him, of a kind that he had never…

— Neil D'Silva

“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse,…

— Jim Butcher

“She glowered at him. 'For your information, in the past week, I have been, oh let's see, nearly raped, kidnapped, tied to a bedpost,…

— Julia Quinn

“I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered…

— Kate White

“He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he…

— Bill Bryson

“I thought of the people on the roof and wondered how they managed to stay up there as there was nothing to hang on…

— Alfred Nestor

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious for a…

— Albert Camus

“The room was filled with deep, raucous sighs, sudden sobs, silent floods of tears. The horrified musician stopped,and going up to the man whose…

— Charles Baudelaire