Story collection Quotes

“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they did, I’d have to move out and find another world to write about.”

“Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.”

“In high school, she’d been the loner fat girl and I’d been the asshole jock. There had always been something between us; we had gotten on so easily. I remember being both confused and upset that when I’d finally experienced that thing everyone called chemistry, it had been with her of all people.”

“She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the key, that she would go from the duck to the swan the minute someone recognized her potential. And they would look into her like they were trying to pierce her eyes with theirs, like they were trying to make her heart stop, and the whole world would become background noise and she would take her first breath after all of these years of nothing but existing. It would be like a coronation, or a star exploding, and then she would be born. She would be alive, and she would be loved.”

“Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.”

“My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.”

“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.”

“I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.”

“The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite”

“I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.”