Top Short Story Quotes

Isn’t it funny that if God were to reveal and explain Himself, the majority of the world would necessarily be disappointed?

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess.

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

I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway.I’m drunk. Drunk people tell the truth.Like hell they do. Besides you’re not that drunk.Then dare me something.I snorted....

His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn’t say where you would be licking the salt from.

The pupil of a goat's eye is elongate like a cat's, but if you look closely you'll see that it's in the horizontal position, and if you look closer still you'll see that it's less gracefully shaped, m...

Happy birthday, she said. And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save the eyes of Eleonora; and, winding stealthily about...

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I hate complaining to strangers -- you can only complain satisfactorily to people you know really well.

I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was...

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the logical relations of things, and analyse the processes which shaped h...

This person has hoped and dreamed and now it is really happening and this person can hardly believe it. But believing is not an issue here, the time for faith and fantasy is over, it is really really...

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written an...

I have read that long ago there was a land of glass castles that sank beneath the sea. It was not called Atlantis, but Lyonesse. This happened before history and across the ocean, but when I was littl...

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything...