Womens Fiction Quotes

“Sometimes the changes are good. Sometimes you think they're good and you end up disappointed. Other times you think life has handed you a lemon and it turn out to be a diamond. And there are other times when it just is what it is. It's not what you wanted, but there's nothing you can do about it, so you just have to accept what's happened and go on”
― Melodie Ramone, After Forever Ends

“Spilling a Secret

What its size,
will have varying
consequences. It’s not
possible to predict
what will happen
if you
open the gunnysack,
let the cat escape.
A liberated feline
might purr on your lap,
or it might scratch
your eyes out. You can’t
tell
until you loosen the knot.
Do you chance losing
a friendship, if that
friend’s well-being
will
only be preserved
by betraying sworn-to
silence trust? Once
the seam is ripped, can
it be
mended again?
And if that proves
impossible, will you be
okay
when it all falls to pieces?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Triangles

“I have romanticised you to the point where the knives you pressed into my skin began to look like cupids arrows.”
― E.J. Wood, Beyond the Pale

“All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.”
― Shirlene Obuobi, On Rotation

“Non capì, comprese. Perché comprendere era di più, era un abbraccio, era prendere con sé, era farne parte.”
― Cetta De Luca, Nata in una casa di donne

“A good night to you, too, Mr. Buchanan,” she said, tilting her head in his direction with reserved dignity.
His lips pulled back from his teeth in a wolfish smile. “You better enjoy it, princess! Might be your first and your last on this ranch.”
She smiled back at him with the distinguished grace of a lady of her social class, accepting the challenge.
“And that’s where I will prove you wrong, Mr. Buchanan.”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“His lips slowly curved into a crooked smile while his dark eyes clung to hers, an intense, desirous resolve filling them. At the same moment, Katherine realized that their banter had gone too far.
But it was too late.
Before she could even blink, his arms wrapped around her, pulling her up against him while his mouth came down on hers, smothering her surprised gasp. With a low moan in his throat, he hungrily ground his lips into hers.
The commanding fervor in his kiss stunned her at first, making her freeze in stupefied shock. Then she resolutely braced her hands against his chest and tore her mouth away from his, appalled.
“Don’t—!”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“Ya shouldn’t expect too much though, princess.” He leaned into her, a hint of warning in his voice. “Ya won’t be able to enjoy it for long anyway. Winter’s just ‘round the corner, and the first snow won’t be long in comin’. Believe me, old man winter out here really packs a punch. Such a goddamn blizzard’s a fuckin’ unpleasant thing.” He lifted one corner of his mouth in a crooked, mean smile. “This country’s full of nasty surprises.”
She returned his gaze, unperturbed. “Are you done?”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“Cass snorted with laughter.
“She’s a real beast with a bellyful of bedsprings. Wouldn’t wanna be the one to break her in,” he said in his thick Irish brogue. “Reminds me of that hot-blooded redhead in Omaha.” He nudged Sully with a salacious wink. “What was her name again?”
Sully chuckled. “Molly.”
“Oh yeah, Molly.” A broad grin of reminiscence showed on Cass’s face. “Was a real beauty, that one, wasn’t she? We should name this filly after her.”
“We should,” Sully agreed, scratching the adolescent red fuzz on his chin.
“Was she your horse, Cass?” Willie asked, giving the young Irishman a curious stare.
“Hmm?” Not paying the boy much attention, Cass took a long drag on his cigarette. His slanted green eyes followed the mare’s nervous movements attentively.
“Well, Molly?” Willie blinked with impatience. “Was she?”
Cass gave him a baffled look, as if he didn’t understand the question. Then, a wide grin blazed across his angular face while smoke came drifting out of his mouth.
“Yeah, she was,” he nodded, smirking, and exchanged a brief, meaningful look with Sully. “Had fire and was classy, too, like this one.”
Sully hooted with laughter, and Cass joined in.
“What happened to her?” Something was funny, but Willie didn’t grasp what it was.
Cass took another puff, then smirked again. “Well, I kinda had to get rid of her, kid. A filly like that can take ya to an early grave, y’know. She wears ya out so utterly you’re barely able to walk afterwards.”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“Danny’s brows furrowed with another scowl. “You’re so goddamn obstinate, Kate, so fuckin’ selfish. You don’t give a shit ‘bout how I feel or ‘bout how much it torments me.”
“Yes, I do,” she objected, her throat thick despite her anger. “That’s why our ways must part for a while. Because we’re both suffering. We need to be apart from each other, Danny, don’t you see?”
“You need to be apart, damn ya,” he growled, clenching his fists. “You needa get rid of me ‘cause ya don’t wanna be reminded of how ya were toyin’ with me. So your conscience won’t haunt ya, tellin’ ya that it was wrong to take advantage of my feelings as long as ya needed me.”
Katherine let out an outraged gasp.
“I never took advantage of you or toyed with you—ever! I’ve seen you as my brother. I didn’t know your feelings for me went deeper.”
Danny huffed a hard, sardonic laugh, and for a moment she felt strongly reminded of Joe.
“Don’t play innocent with me, Kate! You knew exactly what ya were doin’. All that banterin’, your enchanting smiles—. You’re a grown woman, not an inexperienced girl. You already had yasself a husband, ya know the deal.”
― Melanie Nova, The Avant-gardiste: Into the West

“A pained body with a broken spirit tends to recoil when the hand of grace first finds its wounds.”
― Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

“But she's worth it.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Too many women kept too many secrets. For too long, women had buried their ambitions and their intelligence, succumbed to the law of the land made by men, and put up with behaviour and situations no man had a right to impose on them. They had made excuses and apologised for the bad behaviour of some men, had covered up for the failings of other men, and had silently laboured and toiled without complaining. Because it was their lot. Because it was what women did.”
― Victoria Purman, The Radio Hour

“«I'm just feeling inferior after reading about our first kiss.»
«Inferior to who? Yourself?»
He nods. «Teenage Atlas though your eyes was quite the charmer.»
«So is adult Atlas.»”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Then there's Lily and her impeccable timing being back in my life. She always seems to show up when I need a lifeline.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“«Would a hug make you feel better?»
«Obviously. I'll be fine after I get some sleep, though.»
«Hugs take two seconds, and you'll sleep so much better. What's your address?»
«You're going to drive five miles just to give me a hug?»
«I'd run five miles just to give you a hug.»”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I can remember what it was like to be twelve. All I wanted was for someone to be interested in who I was, even if they were faking interest.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“You're a big part of the reason I got through it, even though you weren't there.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“One breath, one kiss, one day, one year, one lifetime. I'll take whatever you'll give me, and I vow that I will cherish every second I'm lucky enough to spend with you from this moment on, just as I've cherished every second I've ever spent with you before this moment.
We could live our entire lives together, happily, until we're old and frail and it takes an entire day for me just to reach your lips to kiss you goodnight. If that happens, I vow that I will be immensely grateful for the love that carried us through our life together.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“«I've loved you for years and years and years, Lily. You know that.»
«I've loved you for just as long.»
«I know you have. No one on this earth loves me like you do.»”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“This kiss is made up of a whole new set of ingredients. Our first kiss was made of fear and youthful inexperience.
This kiss is hope. It's comfort and safety and stability. It's everything I've been missing in my adult life, and I am so happy Atlas and I have each other again.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I fold myself around her, fitting her head under my chin. It's incredible how much we've both changed physically since we were teens, but we somehow still fit together just as perfectly as we did back then.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I press my lips to her tattoo, determined to make sure she remembers the good parts of us in all the future kisses I'm going to give her in this spot. If it takes a million kisses for her not to think about the scars that surround her heart tattoo, then I'll kiss her there a million and one times.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“But no matter how we got here, we're here.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Wondering how in the world she can make me feel so whole when I had no idea I was only half of myself without her.
Of course I've missed her all these years, and if I could have snapped my fingers and brought her back into my life, I would have in a heartbeat. But we have built lives without each other. I had grown used to not living life with her. But now that she's back, I don't know that I could ever feel whole again without her.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“I've made a lot of small moves over the years that were all excused with "just in case Lily"...
After she left my place a couple of years ago, I went out and bought a lot of things just in case she needed to come back.
I've always had a little bit of hope that we'd end up together someday.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Before you, I had never met love at all.
But then you came along, and you changed that. Not only did I get the opportunity to be the first person to ever fall in love with you, but I also got to experience a shared heartbreak with you. And then, like a miracle, I was given the opportunity to fall in love with you all over again.
Two times in one life.
How can one man be so lucky?”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us

“Or, I suppose, you could just name every place of residence the same thing, like how someone would name all the dachshunds of their lives Eleanor. You disappear the loss under a facade of continuity. Eleanor and Eleanor and Eleanor.”
― Lee Matalone, Home Making

“She turned away, intent on finding work to distract her from her disturbing thoughts, and crashed into Nathan. He didn’t say anything, just cradled her elbows, steadying her. She wanted to press her face into his flannel shirt and cry for Mrs. Lacy, and Matty Delarue, and the teenage boy ruining her bread, but most of all for Nathan, and if she were honest, for herself, because she was afraid that sooner or later, he’d have to go. She didn’t need him for the store, but she needed him. Or at least she thought she did.
She felt so firm in what she wanted for the store, and how she wanted to carve out a name for herself, yet uncertain about how to go about it and have Nathan, too.”
― Donna Jo Stone, Joann

“I am only a woman, Swadhin Da. People don't ask, they decide for me." Abhaya smiled melancholically as Swadhin looked a little uneasy.
"You have a say, Abhaya. So tell me what you want. I promise I will not disrespect your choice." Swadhin reassured her, firmly.”
― Suranya Sengupta, Protibimbo: A Reflection of the Society