Quotes of: Stories Keyword

Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.

Arsen: A Broken Love Story

But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over.

The Aleph and Other Stories

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

He Knew He Was Right

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The Happy Prince and Other Stories

It might feel like the end of the world-- but it's the beginning of your art.

Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

How They Met, and Other Stories

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

Homeland and Other Stories

What are your interests?" "Your son in my room," I said. "Excuse me?" "The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy.

How They Met, and Other Stories

You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.

Icefall

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

Ironside

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

A struggle is a preparation for what is yet to come. -Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

If You Want Your Life, You Have to Fight!: The Brenda Saw Jesus Story

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.

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