Quotes of: Stories Keyword

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time. Eating and crying. Crying and eating.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

Magic Study

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to p...

On Masturbation

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.

Marginal Voices: Selected Stories

My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

My Father's Tears and Other Stories

The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.

The Mountain Story

My doppelganger wraps the ear in a handkerchief and shoves it into his pocket as he leaves the train with a nod of his head in my direction.” William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

Metro

The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.

My Beloved World

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

Northanger Abbey

And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday. p. 81

Navigating Early

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

#Networking is people looking for people looking for people

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.

NIRVANA

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

The Neverending Story

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

The Neverending Story

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

Number the Stars