Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Dust

Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

Drinking: A Love Story

In the end, we all die for what we believe in... mostly because we all die.

Dear Johnny - A Gen-Ex Love Story

The most important events in every age never reach the history books.

The Dark Tower and Other Stories

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

Death in the Woods and Other Stories

Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' (“The Bogey Man”)

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.

Deathless

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.

Deathless

I don’t just want a gripping story line. I shoot for the three dimensional literary Braille to a silent Scorsese movie

Darkness Left Undone

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Discovering Yourself

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Elizabeth Costello

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Ellen Foster

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

Envy

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.

Excuse Me, My Brains Have Stepped Out

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Earthly Powers

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Einstein's Beach House: Stories

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

Eating Naked: Stories

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

Ethereal

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

Episodes of Vathek

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden