Quotes of: Real-story Keyword

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper." Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before she continued. "I will never be the same when you are gone. Things fo...

The Probability of Miracles

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did....

For Whom the Bell Tolls

The reason why the world is a difficult place to live in, is due to the fact that people are not interested in people. Nobody is truly interested in anybody; they are only interested in the parts that they think will be pleasurable and comfortable fo...

C. JoyBell C.

How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama, [...] how do we know that things are real?' Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house. Well, we don't know. We just have to hope tha...

Julie Metz

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.

Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

In the City of Shy Hunters

Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

Conduit: A Love Story Before During and After Life

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [ ]

Collected Stories of Guy De Maupassant

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

Chronicles of Urban Nomads

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.

The Cashmere Scarf

[Mary] says her memories Will help those of us Newly come to our Lord’s mercy, To live in His light.

Daystar Rising: A Story of the First Christmas

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

I was raised to face any challenge.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.

East of Eden