20th-century Author Quotes

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

Daniel Wallace (author)

Tomorrow, I will take on all of these things. I will be unstoppable.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.

I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.

Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.

Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?

The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Karin Slaughter

I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.

We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

David Foenkinos

The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

Jennifer L. Holm

My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.

You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

Shalom Auslander

People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.

Rachel Joyce (writer)

We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

Brendon Burchard