Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?

God Is in the Pancakes

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

What is it like to wear another person’s skin?” “I don’t have a good answer for that,” I said. “It hurts.” “Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

The Gargoyle

You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.

A Guide to Being Born: Stories

The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

The Hob's Bargain

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Broken Abroad

A blanket is a tell-all story about its endeavors with certain highly publicized people and their somewhat promiscuous acts.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel. 

British Bulldog

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Bagombo Snuff Box

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Bag of Bones

The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.

The B-Side Diaries

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

The Blue Girl

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own.

Boy & Girl

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.

The Book of Ivy

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none.

The Bastard of Istanbul

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

The Bell Jar

I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.

Bloom