Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Standing Tall: The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans

Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Selected Stories Of Robert Barr

And it's just dawned on me that I might be the author of my own story, but so is everyone else the author of their own stories, and sometimes, like now, there's no overlap.

The Sky is Everywhere

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

Switched at Birth: The True Story of a Mother's Journey

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Shadow Kiss

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It is both scary and exciting at the same time.

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

The Moment Under the Moment: Stories, a Libretto, Essays, and Sketches

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

In this world of endless opportunities our dreams compete. If we wait to start a journey, the destination may not be anymore what we wanted to find.

Naked Determination,41 Stories About Overcoming Fear

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

Never Leave Your Wingman: Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Little Bee

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Love Story