Quotes of: Long-story Keyword

My skyscraper of a heart met an earthquake of a woman. Why can’t I meet a simple window washer? My love is a hundred stories tall—and I wrote every single one of those stories.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I wonder if that's the perennial story of writers: you find the true light, you lose the true light, you find it again. And maybe again.

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

Up All Night: A Short Story Collection

Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time.

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Marriage is a mosaic you build with your ­spouse—millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

The Unveiled Wife: Embracing Intimacy with God and Your Husband

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Lo más importante es resistir y perseverar, pues la vida salvaje promete lo siguiente: después del invierno, viene siempre la primavera.

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Fiction is very, very important," he said, his voice is rising. "Storytelling is how people learn. You get people to understand new cultures and other lives through stories. Made-up stories. Fiction.

Wickedly Charming

A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

Whiskey Pike: A Bedtime Story for the Drinking Mankind.

...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

So what’s your story?” Ryan asks. Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. “My story?” “Yeah. Everybody has at least one.

Two Boys Kissing

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

This Boy's Life

In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Sometimes kindness is stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right & just being happy for someone.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew. That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Holiday Keepsakes: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Memories

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

Giles Duley

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Nic Pizzolatto

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Philip Pullman