“Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don’t even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it’s all real here. Here it’s real.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You’re going to get it. You’ll get it how I say. Like I say. When I say, Scribbler. I am Jeramiah Poe. Muse Rider – Diviner of Destinies… and you are my Muse.” ~Jeramiah Poe~”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Stories were fictional in Octava—that was the law.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“I promise to write your story, I’m sorry I stopped. I’ll write you the best story, I-I’ll make you a classic, the most famous ever and you’ll never die!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“The Seven are not traitors. And the Sound Realm has been summoned by Octava’s Queen to help.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You, Jeramiah Poe are the 8th Ark of Octava. You must bring The Seven home and fight the war.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You can manage to break your neck, yes. Stop being a fussy pants and let me help you to the couch.” Kane laughed and skipped ahead. “Fussy pants. She called you a fussy pants.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“You broke Octava’s Ancient Code when you entered his story.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“she was this close to getting the guts and becoming the unthinkable and loathsome family enemy—an Independent Author.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“I am created for fiction but I am real. As is Kane. As are all the characters created by Scribblers in the realm of Octava!”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Do you have any idea at all about words? The power behind them?”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Not yet. But Mr. Poe is teaching me lots of things. Tonight he’s going to teach me the power of sleep.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Poe recoiled when he put his mouth on her cheek before running back at a break-neck speed, little Isabelle jumping and waving her animated goodbye. Quarks and hadrons, he’d need to cleanse the boy’s mouth.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“Because the Independents are sovereign. They don’t belong to Traditional Octava and are not governed by all their laws. They have their own laws.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“The seven Bogs of Octava.” “Seven too? One for each genre Mr. Poe?” “Now you’re catching on. The realms recyclable. The energies of characters go there after their life is over.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“That depends on how well a story’s life is loved by those in the Scribbler’s realm. The more people like it, the longer the story is kept alive. And if you’re really loved, you can become a classic and never die.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
“No characters in any story were ever to be harmed within their fictional creations. But everything about the place, the feelings and sounds Poe processed, said that law was being broken.”
― Lucian Bane, quote from The Scribbler Guardian
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“You got shot at and you still got me an air conditioner.”
― Jennifer Crusie, quote from Agnes and the Hitman
“They forgot who she was:
Something fantastic we could never explain. Someone better and bolder than every one of us. Someone to paint murals and build bridges for. Someone worth every ounce of our love.
Someone powerful, but in the end not powerful enough.”
― Nova Ren Suma, quote from Imaginary Girls
“By the middle of the afternoon it had rained so much that the drains were overflowing, clogged up with leaves and newspapers.
The water built up until it was sliding across the road in great sheets, rippled by the wind and parted like a football crowd by passing cars.
I was shocked by the sheer volume of water that came pouring out of the darkness of the sky.
Watching the weight of it crashing into the ground made me feel like a very young child, unable to understand what was really happening.
Like trying to understand radio waves, or imagining computers communicating along glass cables.
I leant my face against the window as the rain piled upon it, streaming down in waves, blurring my vision, making the shops opposite waver and disappear.
There was a time when I might have found this exhilarating, even miraculous, but not that day.
That day it made me nervous and tense, unable to concentrate on anything while the noise of it clattered against the windows and the roof.
I kept opening the door to look for clear skies, and slamming it shut again.
And then around teatime, from nowhere, I smashed all the dirty plates and mugs into the washing-up bowl.
Something swept through me, swept out of and over me, something unstoppable, like water surging from a broken tap and flooding across the kitchen floor.
I don't quite understand why I felt that way, why I reacted like that.
I wanted to be saying it's just something that happens.
But I was there, that day, slamming the kitchen door over and over again until the handle came loose.
Smacking my hand against the worktop, kicking the cupboard doors, throwing the plates into the sink.
Going fuckfuckfuck through my clenched teeth.
I wanted someone to see me, I wanted someone to come rushing in, to take hold of me and say hey hey what are you doing, hey come on, what's wrong.
But there was no one there, and no one came. ”
― Jon McGregor, quote from If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
“People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not."
"Shouldn't the storyteller believe it."
"The storyteller should tell it.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from The Gift
“He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.”
― Philip Pullman, quote from Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
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