I had certain major character flaws that she needed to point out with an accompanying burst of emotion, and my presence was necessary.

- from Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying.

- from Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, both dark and bright, and they will ensnare your soul."
- from Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable--and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

- from Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, & Raven by Lauren Oliver

This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must invent themselves, too.

- from Requiem by Lauren Oliver

"...but you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them."

- from The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

"And whenever you want to do something and you're not an adult, people tell you to stop. Even when there's no real reason."

That was true.

- from Summerlost by Ally Condie

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

- from Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.

- from Wool by Hugh Howey

Habits were such lies, such lies, lulling them into the feeling that there was something that was lasting, when really nothing lasted.

- from Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

They were specks in this universe, specks! But what ideas they had. People would do anything for the sake of an idea, anything.

- from Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Now, in this moment, they were two old brothers in arms, sitting on a sea cliff. After all the years of struggle they could sit out there all afternoon if they liked, flying a kite and talking. Discussing their old friends and the weather. There had been trouble before, there would be trouble again; but here they were.

- from Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

P. was silenced, and betook himself to the bottled stout.

- from "The Spectre of Tappington" by Richard Harris Barham

The heart is pleased by one thing after another.

- from Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

It's pointless to achieve a red Mars by pouring blood over the planet. We have to find another way. We can't do it by killing people. Not even by killing animals or plants, or blowing up machines. It won't work. It's destructive. It doesn't appeal to people, do you understand? No one is won over. In fact they're put off. The more we do things like that, the more green they become. So we defeat our purpose. If we know that and do it anyway, then we're betraying the purpose. Do you understand? We aren't doing it for anything but our own feelings. Because we're angry. Or for thrills. We have to find another way.

- from Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.

- from "The Body-Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson

"I'm a man of my word," Jeevan said. At that point in his directionless life he wasn't sure if this was true or not, but it was nice to think that it might be.

- from Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

"Gene Roddenberry [...] initially tapping a woman as the first officer (to be portrayed by Majel Barrett) [...]" - from "More Than 'Just Uhura'" by Margaret A. Weitekamp in Star Trek and History

My fondest hope is that the author's phrasing here is intentional.

John 16:33: "I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world." 

...when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

- from Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer