Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

Chronicles of Mark Johnson-8 short ghost stories

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

The Collected Stories

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it.

Collected Stories

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. ("The Wide Net")

The Collected Stories

You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.

From the Cafe and Beyond: A Collection of Poems and Other Writings

Cassie - She loved reading romances - contemporary stuff. She wasn't into fantasy. No fairytale princess and prince stories. No vampires. No werewolves. No immortal fae.

Dragon Fae

When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.

Dating the Wrong Men

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

Dreamland

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

The Daddy Rock

Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. (“The Wife Of Ted Wickham”)

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

Remember always where the dreaming ends and the being begins. Draw a line for everything you care about and then step over it.

Double Dutch and Other Stories

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Dear Life: Stories

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Dusk and Other Stories

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Double On-Call and Other Stories

If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

Dream Story

There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Death in the Woods and Other Stories