Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

Tomorrow, When the War Began

If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

The Tale of Despereaux

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

A Touch of Deceit

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind.

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

OFW: This is My Life and Story

...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.

OCD Love Story

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right.

The Other Side of the Story

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Phoning Home: Essays

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

PopCo

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

Pretties

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

Poor Things

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

P.S. I Still Love You