Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.

Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

If "Sex and the City" taught us anything, it's that Paris is the only city in the world that New Yorkers actually fantasize about.

Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

Wasn't growing catnip in one's yard the kitty equivalent of giving candy to children?

Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology

They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Change was not something you waited for, quietly, mutely, in a house by the ocean, nothing would ever change unless we forced it into shape.

The Story of a Marriage

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

The Story of Mankind

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

I feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years.

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

The Story Sisters

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.

A Season of Love: Stories to Help Heal, Grow and Find Peace Within

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings