Quotes of: Stories Keyword

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

For the Blood is the Life and Other Stories

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

Bark: Stories

A new day is a new beginning, a new life to live!

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

In politics, regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?

Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories

Dreams are what keep us growing. They are what keep us alive. To give up, is to let our dreams die.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Maybe our job in life is to help a person run a little farther, to try a little harder, to not give up.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Be thankful for the simple things and God's love and you will never be disappointed when life gets hard.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The most important parts of building a family are "God's Love" and "Meaningful Friendships.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

The Bell In The Fog & Other Stories

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.

Barefoot Season

I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.

The Beautiful Indifference: Stories

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Bark: Stories

Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same ...

Neal Asher

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

Eddie Murphy

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this ag...

Julia Roberts

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth...

Olympia Dukakis