Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

No one has ever been deeply changed by an act of the will. The only thing that can re-forge and change a life at its root, is love.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.

The King of Kings and I: The Greatest Story Ever Kvetched

This is a bad story.” “Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.” “No, you should,” I say. “But—” “I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

Room

Stories are psycho-diagnostic ― they diagnose the condition of our psyches. When we watch, read or hear a story, whatever detail jumps out reflects an issue in our psyche that requires our attention.

Running Into Myself

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Selected Stories Of Robert Barr

And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

The Sky is Everywhere

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

Switched at Birth: The True Story of a Mother's Journey

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Shadow Kiss

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It is both scary and exciting at the same time.

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.

Naked Determination,41 Stories About Overcoming Fear