Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward.

Pieces of White Shell

Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in all places, in all times.

The Power of Story: Teaching Through Storytelling

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

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

I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.

SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden

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