#fiction

Don't ever let anyone tell you that things can't be changed, that things can't be done. The can and they will, if we are united in what we believe. ↗

— F.C. Malby

#literary-fiction #change

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction #utopia #religion

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#science-fiction #science

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science

Day 72 I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me. ↗

— Gemma Seltzer

#london #oranges #speaking #stories #strangers

Be Swag ↗

— Kelly Carbage

#science

Y, justo Cuando terminó la canción, lo supe: Estaba perdido, igual que tu padre. Después, una vez Siguientes Durante los años, Intenté reunir el valor Suficiente para hablar contigo. ↗

— suzzane collins

#science

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#science-fiction #stories #the-self #writing #science

When he flashed that rockin’ smile of his again, I couldn’t help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel ↗

— Victoria H. Smith

#humor #new-adult #science-fiction-romance #upper-ya #science

Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#richard-denney #storytelling #teen-fiction #teen