Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

[last lines] Neil: [narration voice-over] And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go ba...

Mysterious Skin

Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have. Josey Wales: That's true. I ain't promising you nothing extra. I'm just giving you life and you're giving me life. And I'm saying that men can live together without butchering one another...

The Outlaw Josey Wales

On a second note, though, I have something to say about pain. There are lots of kinds of pain. Pain of smashing your fingers in a car door, pains of loosing a baby, pain of failing a test. But in their own little ways, these pains are all agonizing. ...

Alysha Speer

I would like to see you come undone. When you're laughing so hard that your eyes crinkle at the corners and your hand comes up to cover your mouth, like you're trying to conceal a secret. When you are overcome with a sadness so deep that your shoulde...

Love

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages.

Closed Doors

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Cold Days

One single sentence, one frame of film, and abracadabra! the story’s wings would take her to another lost world, another magic realm that was ready to be explored.

The Castle of Desires

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

The Crippled God

CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.

Coraline

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

The Color Master: Stories

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Collected Stories

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

Chronicles of Mark Johnson-8 short ghost stories

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

The Collected Stories

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it.

Collected Stories

The thing that seemed like silence must have been the endless cry of all the crickets and locusts in the world, rising and falling. ("The Wide Net")

The Collected Stories

You are a story worthy of being told, A person made to be loved, With a life meant to be lived.

From the Cafe and Beyond: A Collection of Poems and Other Writings