Quotes of: Short-period Keyword

You're never too old to laugh at stories about love and sex.

Dating and Mating Secrets of Seniors and Other Short Stories of Love and Sex

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking." "Wish I was.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

From the standpoint of what eternity is it better to have read a thousand books than to have ploughed a million furrows?

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

Tom Wolfe

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

Adam Bede

However life started, once established, it persisted for over 3.5 billion years and evolved from microbial slime to the sophistication of human civilization.

Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

Impromptu Scribe

There's no right or wrong way to hurt. Everybody does it their own way. It's how we respond to pain that tells the kind of person we are.

Summer on the Short Bus

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Selected Short Fiction

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY...SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY.....

North Philly's Finest Part 1

We repeat the shout of the Universe. You and I blend together. You are one word and I am another.

Naked Morsels: Short Stories of Spiritual Erotica

I steal," Winkle said, with a smile that said I’m joking and a glint in his eye that said I’m not.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner

It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction

Life is too short to not kick fear in the ass and allow yourself to love again.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.

Unborn: Three Short Stories