Quote by Scott Westerfeld

“but the sudden stark reality that things were never going to be the same again.”

— Kathryn Hughes

“The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the…

— Susan Catalano

“...no one knows why things happen, you see? Anything could follow from anything. Even real history tells us nothing.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“But that was what made things so exciting--nothing was ever how you expected it to be.”

— Jeanne DuPrau

“...how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Life was indeed unpredictable and it was true that it could take a sudden unexpected turn.”

— Preeti Shenoy

“thought. The world had gotten a lot scarier, but it had gotten a lot more interesting, too.”

— Melissa F. Olson

“It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...”

— Tad Williams

“I learned there were lots of realities in the world.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer