Quotes of: Stories Keyword

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age. And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.

The Billion-Dollar Marriage Contract

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.

Big Small Dog

Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

Before the Next Draft; 26 Plot Steps to Revision Plot eBook

The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?

Black Swan Green

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

In Bloom

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that the two languages did not carry equal weight.

The Barbarian Nurseries

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

(the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

Dreams are what keep us growing. they are what keep us alive...io give up is to let our dreams die..........

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

We'll all be failures?" "Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

Learn how to leave yourself behind, read between the lines, and let your spirit soar...take our Heavenly Father's guiding hand.

A Bright New Morning: An American Story

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Begotten with Love: Every Family Has Its Story

It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one.

Bridge of Snow

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story