Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

I thought about my [Punjabi] family. The only nakshatram we think about is the division of petrol pumps when we have to see the girl.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

I don't care anymore! I tried so hard! It's like the more I keep tryin' to be here the more people keep treating me like I don't belong here!

29 Dimes: A Love Story

I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

One does not find soulmates.. soulmates 'happen' unannounced in some turn of this deliciously unpredictable journey called life, often when we are not even 'groomed for the occasion

About Matters of the Hurt: Love Stories - Round the Clock

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it cou...

The Age of Reason

Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.

Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to tell it yourself.

Here If You Need Me: A True Story

Listen with your heart, not your brain. the heart only knows TRUTH!

I Will See You Again: A Mother's Story and Sacred Journey After Finding Her Son's Lifeless Body

Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open." from "The Beauty of Ugh

I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups

The majority of our relationship took place over the phone, saving me tons of calories in unswallowed semen.

I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

The only way your child will grow out of their dependency into self-sufficient adults is for you to essentially abandon your own independence for 20 years or so.

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

On Christ's attitude toward His disciples: "If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

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

She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

Stories do not change the world. I’ve learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way.... I mean it’s not the world I want to change.

Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories

In his mother’s honor, vowing not to commit the “fashionable stupidity” of ignoring things he didn’t understand, Max performed a brave act of nonconformity by accepting the possibility that his dreams might be exactly what they seemed: real.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in the realm of metaphysics and begged an answer to why he could do these things.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.

The Stamp Collector