Quotes of: Story Keyword

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge

We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

Because in some other universe, you are me, I am you, and we are perfectly happy together. Or perhaps not… and just like this…

A Dilli-Mumbai Story ...when Love Won Over Terror

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

Ender's Game

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.

Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

Engine Summer

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.

Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone

I am a fireball of emotions and impulses; my zest for life is unquenchable. And I am either of only two things: Fire or Ice.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

I am passionate about the things that I believe in like equality, free will, justice and love.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.

Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.

The Faraway Nearby

...the second time you see something is really the time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.

The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.

Flogging the Quill: Crafting a Novel that Sells

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World

Facebook also has a fundamental characteristic that has proven key to its appeal in country after country—you only see friends there.

The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World