Literary Novel Quotes

“Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“Nearing the Riefler's big red brick house he could see the yellow light spill out on the galerie Yvonne had insisted her German husband wrap around the house.  There was a tightening in Victor's chest.  It happened to him whenever he got close to the Riefler's house, or church on Sunday- anytime he thought he might catch a glimpse of Celena.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“The minute the door was opened, she wished she had made some excuse not to see them.  Victor was sitting by the bed, and the tender expression on his face as he looked down at his wife and latest child, made something violent and jealous jump in Penelope's heart.  She could have murdered Ethan for shutting the door loudly behind them, interrupting their intimacy.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“By the dawn of the seventeenth century, the order of Stormsongs had grown both darker and more powerful, while the Holy Roman Empire they allegedly still served found itself surrounded by powerful enemies – and on the brink of collapse.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“Hannah knelt to get a closer look at the trail of holes. “Last night’s vandal wore stilettos.”
The two men stared at her, confused.
“English, please. You’re talking to country boys.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“When Hannah’s life hangs in the balance, is Trace willing to face his greatest fear to rescue the woman he loves?”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“Perhaps you are right, sister.  Perhaps it is time we all calmed down a little and started to tell each other the truth.”  Šarlatová paused to look at the faces of everyone assembled in the room and added, “But it is going to take a while….a long while.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“When Hannah Hudson finds herself abandoned on a Rocky Mountain ranch, even a lottery win doesn’t change her bad-luck life.”
― Cricket Rohman, Colorado Takedown

“What happens to one of us happens to all of us.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work.”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

“All my life I had longed for a straightforward fight. To
stride out with confidence, and slay a dragon. But there
were no dragons, and the only thing I had ever met
which barely approached one, I had loved.”
― Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

“Her strength, she would tell Van much later on, was nothing more nor less than the hope of, at last, attaining that goal which had become so important for her--not to succeed in doing something, but simply to do something good.”
― Laurence Cossé, A Novel Bookstore

“I happened to pen literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”
― B.S. Murthy

“I happened to pen some literature, alas, in an utterly unliterary era.”
― B.S. Murthy