Quotes of: Short-stories Keyword

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity

You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

Letters to My Daughter: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems about Love, Pride, and Identity

You more than anyone else deserve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

Welcome to Heartbreak: A Collection of Poems, Short Stories, and Affirmations about Love, Life & Heartbreak.

I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.

Pushpa Rana

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency—a chaos—, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this ve...

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.

Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as f...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 1

I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short s...

Suzanne Collins

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...

Haruki Murakami

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." [ ]

Complete Short Stories

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.

Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

Mikhail Bulgakov

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Tobias Wolff

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The Complete Short Stories

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

The Complete Short Stories

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Realities: a Collection of Short Stories

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff)

Unintended Guardian: A Mythos Legacy Short Story