Short Story Quotes

What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.

Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.

Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys.

Lending my voice to a dedicated readership is a match made in heaven.

Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.

Light has a voice?” Sarucha inquired, amazed.

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

Don't ruin a good story with the facts.

Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.

It takes both sides to build a bridge.

I won’t have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That’s what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don’t take anything—they give.

You are the only thing I've ever needed. The only treasure that matters.- Seamus Tierney

Between the sands of time and tradition is a multitude of truths untold.

The smiting and righteous retribution happens less often than you would think - Hades

I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like, "Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight

Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

Just how good are you?”He kissed her. “I’ll let you be the judge of that.

I’m supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...--Nil Caveat

The mind is a thing capable of destroying itself when deep grief sets in, and when left alone to muse over one’s misery, the most irreparable damage can be done. You need people to heal.

It isn't fair, it isn't right, " Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

Short stories are great start, but if they are true that's the best start so far in about 222 short stories I have viewed and I have already shared them in the book series Reddit Collection.

I told you. I’ve been watching.” She twirled, her arms outstretched. “Watching, watching, watching.

The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Perhaps he found it strange being accompanied by a Chinese-Nigerian arms trafficking pirate, but the Irish priest had just followed me silently on board the covert government transport.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

[Anger] gave him the soul to keep fighting no matter how many times the world seemed bent on destroying him. He may be a broken young man, but he would never be a defeated one

I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Junk?” Gram gasped. “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure, you know.”“Yeah, well, maybe it’s time to let another man have it, you think?” he teased. ~ "The Mirror

In her hand was a necklace with a small oval pendant, a half of a locket engraved with one of the same symbols from the mirror frame—what Quinn saw as rolling waves. ~ "The Mirror

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.“We all fall down.

Alice is fictional. This isn't.

He paused, giving her a sweet smile of understanding. "You don't have to start with the crown jewels, you know. You could start with my lips then work your way down.

Shh, mi amor. The neighbors will hear and call the police.

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

I don’t know what else to say.""There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change years of absurdity.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Raining with words

life is not about distance, it’s about direction

I cannot believe I have been duped, not once but twice. My three years gaining a degree in psychology was clearly a waste of time. I might as well have studied Klingon.

There's only so much evidence a small Jack Russell can dispose of.