Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

The Sky is Everywhere

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

Switched at Birth: The True Story of a Mother's Journey

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Shadow Kiss

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It is both scary and exciting at the same time.

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.

Naked Determination,41 Stories About Overcoming Fear

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

Never Leave Your Wingman: Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Little Bee

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Love Story

Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

Letters Home: The Story of an Air Force Wife

As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

Stumbling Backasswards Into the Light

I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

I’m afraid of fear, men named Raef, and palindromes.

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities