Quotes of: Story-lines Keyword

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories

You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

The Piano Teacher

Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so. - Death in Midsummer and Other Stories

Patriotism

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

A Place Like This

Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

The Perfectly Imperfect Home: How to Decorate and Live Well

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

Reached

She's right. We would compose poems about love and tell stories that have been heard in some form before. But it would be our first time feeling and telling.

Reached

Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

That Old Cape Magic

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

She smiled as though someone had just offered her, the oldest virgin in town, a fully functioning Kingsize Vibro vibrator and a deluxe inhibition bypass.

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

Like a submarine ejecting ballast, he bobbed to the surface as another sense pulled his eyelids all the way open like roller blinds in the old cartoons.

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

I am not their f*****g entertainment. And I am not a f*****g hero! Given the choice, a hero would do exactly the same again. I wouldn’t. Okay?

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

…but his problem was infinity; his problem was time running along the x-axis versus stress running along the y-axis, and there never seemed to be time without stress. Stress was a constant.

The Third Rule - The Complete Story

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

I now understand that writing fiction was a seed planted in my soul, though I would not be ready to grow that seed for a long time.

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?

Twelve minutes of love : a tango story

I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I want to tell a story.

The Three Incestuous Sisters