Quotes of: Long-story Keyword

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

Engine Summer

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

I am passionate about the things that I believe in like equality, free will, justice and love.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.

Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

The Faraway Nearby

...the second time you see something is really the time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.

Flogging the Quill: Crafting a Novel that Sells

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.

GO NEGOSYO: Joey Concepcion's 55 Inspiring Stories of Women Entrepreneurs

Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.

The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship

It is well if you go in for revenge to make it as complete as possible. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")

Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

How do you feel about going on a date with me? I'm abroad for another two weeks; you've got plenty of time to prepare yourself. It will be the best night of your life, of course.

The Greatest Love Story of All Time

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70