#short

...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#short-stories #writing #love

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out. ↗

— Joan Connor

#love #lovers #short-stories #love

We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the love…embodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #journaling #love #overcoming #pages

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? ↗

— Pat Conroy

#life #life-is-short #live-in-the-moment #inspirational

No one can play your role better than you. ↗

— Sagar Ugale

#life-quote #short-quote #simple-quote #inspirational

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#campaigning #correspondent #did #era #having

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democracy #form #fragile #government #long

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christian #continually #crosses #death #exercise

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. ↗

— Earle Brown

#good #hands #head #lies #line