Short Story Quotes | Quotes about Short Story

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  • Short Story Quote #1

    A black-haired bitch with man’s hands, widow Liza Van der Bruggenziltch-Finch makes all the important decisions. She is a power-hungry dominatrix. Orwell is her slave. (No one ever sees him.)

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Short Story Quote #2

    A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore.

    R.L. Raymond

  • Short Story Quote #3

    A gossip spread a rumor, and became notorious from the deed. The gossip then started a fire beyond their control, and when it spread, the gossip spread the word around, but people just ran away. The gossip died in the fire they started, longing for warmth they could not find or keep when they did. And no one spread the word, about the gossips' death.

    Justin K. McFarlane Beau

  • Short Story Quote #4

    A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

    George Saunders

  • Short Story Quote #5

    A sound from upstairs sends my thought process reeling. It’s just a small noise, perhaps the sound of your feet brushing the crimson carpet in the bedroom? It’s not loud or menacing, but it sends a wave of adrenaline crashing through me. You’re on your way!

    Felicity Brandon

  • Short Story Quote #6

    Absently, Quinn reached for the sheet to replace it over the aged mirror, but the back of his hand brushed against the cold surface and a strange shiver ran up his arm and down his spine.

    The Mirror

  • Short Story Quote #7

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

    Katherine Mansfield

  • Short Story Quote #8

    Alice is fictional. This isn't.

    Jess C. Scott

  • Short Story Quote #9

    All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes.
    This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.

    Donald Barthelme

  • Short Story Quote #10

    An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.

    Siobhan Davis

  • Short Story Quote #11

    An overnight bag with the company logo – a white silhouette of a finch (which once perched on the curved back of a stallion representing cofounder, Orwell, but has now been ‘adjusted’) – sits motionless beside him on the carpet, sucking up bedbugs.

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Short Story Quote #12

    And just as I'm about to lay on the Yi-Wang-Smooth, I see Lay #1 and Lay #3 show up to our table and take the two empty seats nearby.

    From: My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story

    Zack Love

  • Short Story Quote #13

    And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia

    City Solipsism: A Short Story

    Zack Love

  • Short Story Quote #14

    And then there will be the times when I see you laughing. Like the time you’ll be playing with the neighbor’s puppy, poking your hands through the chain-link fence separating our back yards, and you’ll be laughing so hard you’ll start hiccupping. The puppy will run inside the neighbor’s house, and your laughter will gradually subside, letting you catch your breath. Then the puppy will come back to the fence to lick your fingers again, and you’ll shriek and start laughing again. It will be the most wonderful sound I could ever imagine, a sound that makes me feel like a fountain, or a wellspring.

    Ted Chiang

  • Short Story Quote #15

    And yet it was also true that the tumor could not be removed by our doctor, and as a result of that a strange medication had been given him that enabled my brother to become even more of an enigma than he was before, and as a result of that there came to exist not only the machine and the inertia that came with it, but a change of perspective among the townsfolk that was a result of their interactions with the various phases of my brother. And so it was that when the flood began to rear its terrible head, not only was there the inertia that we all had to deal with, but a sense of the sublime that we had begun to feel for the waters which had roared upon the horizon.

    Justin Dobbs

  • Short Story Quote #16

    Another family crisis: The rabbit goes blind.

    Jacob M. Appel

  • Short Story Quote #17

    Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station, because as I boarded it felt as though we were supposed to step into the same car, and hold onto the same moist metal bar. My wishful hunch now seems confirmed by the way she's reading her Time magazine article next to me.

    Zack Love

  • Short Story Quote #18

    Apapun teorinya, hari sial itu memang ada. Bila mungkin, ingin rasanya menghapus hari tersebut atau memulai segala sesuatu dari awal. Bagaimana bila kita memulai hari dengan cara yang berbeda, memikirkan dan melakukan hal-hal yang berbeda atau tidak mengambil keputusan-keputusan yang telah kita ambil di hari itu, akankah hidup membawa kita pada akhir yang berbeda?

    Jessica Huwae

  • Short Story Quote #19

    Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Short Story Quote #20

    Are you scared?” He taunted, an amused smirk lifting the corner of his mouth.

    I raised my chin a fraction. “No. I…just…I haven’t ridden a horse before.”

    He leaned forward and patted the horse’s neck. “Prism is gentle. You have my word.”

    I wasn’t worried about the horse. “And you?”

    Ry shrugged, his facial expression remained shuttered. “I’d never make that a personal promise, but I will get you to a phone.

    Beth Mikell

  • Short Story Quote #21

    Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity.

    Siobhan Davis

  • Short Story Quote #22

    As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.

    Anton Chekhov

  • Short Story Quote #23

    As Baumauer hangs his shit-coloured coat up on a hook he takes clandestine pleasure in engulfing Obelmäker’s less impressive attire with his own. Privately, he warns the inferior coat, “Don’t suffocate in there.

    Carla H. Krueger

  • Short Story Quote #24

    As he carefully made his way back to the stairs and awkwardly turned off the light, he did not notice that the dark shadow he had assumed was his reflection remained in the mirror. He didn’t see the hands press against the surface and make large, liquid-like bulges beneath the glass. Nor did he hear the whispers that so suddenly and violently filled the dark, cluttered space as he had closed and locked the heavy attic door.

    The Mirror

  • Short Story Quote #25

    As the thing came closer, what was left of Nick’s body became revealed and I could see how the dead boy’s eyes had bled from the trauma inflicted upon him; they dripped with steady succession onto the floor between his splayed legs. He looked like a rejected marionette tossed haphazardly in the corner by a frustrated puppeteer, his head drooping so low that his chin rested against his chest. His motionless arms lay at his sides, both of them squeezed into tight fists, as if he’d died futilely trying to defend himself.

    J. Tonzelli

  • Short Story Quote #26

    As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

    Natalie Goldberg

  • Short Story Quote #27

    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.

    A.F. Stewart

  • Short Story Quote #28

    At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?

    Zack Love

  • Short Story Quote #29

    Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

    stephanie roberts

  • Short Story Quote #30

    Baumauer has been lured into the exhausting habit of supplying Kalist with ever more exceptional quality work just to appease him and often survives all day and all evening without food, but Maxwell D. Kalist is never satisfied. He heavily criticises every piece of banking intelligence the man hands him. The pressure on Baumauer to improve on his performance each month is growing; some say it’s out of control. He’s smoking forty a day and smells like the inside of the deceased Kladno-Konev chimney.

    Carla H. Krueger

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