Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

A Thousand Mornings

Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.

In the Tracks of the Unseen; Memoirs of a Jungian Psychoanalyst

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

I am an elevator in a one-story building. I am ascending. But my love for you is still on the ground floor, waiting for you to push the button.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling.

Taken, Not Spurred

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

Three Strangers And Other Stories

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.

Underdog

Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.

Unstolen

Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide : Five Complete Novels and One Story

... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.

The UnAmericans: Stories

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.

Unborn: Three Short Stories

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Vampire Academy

You broke my heart. I fell for you and you broke my heart. Period, done, end of story.

Vanishing Girls

We must share! Sharing IS caring. Share everything: every idea, every resource, every story, every gift, every worry and every burden. Share yourself.

Voice of Reason

The longer you live, the more dreams you should have to keep you occupied.

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.

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