Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.

Three Came Home

There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

One Story, One Song

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Outliers: The Story of Success

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

The Other Side of the Story

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

In The Presence of The Sun: Stories and Poems

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?

Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin

There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.

Recollection of Shared Days: Stories of Celebration

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth

I realized, it is not the time that heals, but what we do within that time that creates positive change.

Twenty-Eight Snow Angels: A Widow's Story of Love, Loss and Renewal

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

It was the bitterest irony; I came to Washington to fight for "the family" and destroyed mine in the process.

Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction