Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

PopCo

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

Pretties

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

Poor Things

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

P.S. I Still Love You

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

A Thousand Mornings

Our stories are mirrors. We can look into them and return to ourselves. We can make of them an offering.

In the Tracks of the Unseen; Memoirs of a Jungian Psychoanalyst

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

I am an elevator in a one-story building. I am ascending. But my love for you is still on the ground floor, waiting for you to push the button.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

This is what life is about: seeing new places, meeting new people, grabbing life by the balls and squeezing until it coughs up a story worth telling.

Taken, Not Spurred

He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

Three Strangers And Other Stories

War is not natural. We have to be trained for it, soldiers and citizens alike.

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars: The Untold Story

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.

Underdog

Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.

Unstolen