Gashed Finger Quotes & Sayings

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. — Paul Bourget

This is the secret of good storytelling: to lie, but to keep the arithmetic sound. A storyteller, like any other sort of enthusiastic liar, is on an unpredictable adventure. His initial lie, his premise, will suggest many new lies of its own. The storyteller must choose among them, seeking those which are most believable, which keep the arithmetic sound. Thus does a story generate itself. — Kurt Vonnegut

If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

He'd stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he'd wished to be that different man. He'd wished to be worthy of her. — Anna Campbell

The whole forbidden-romance thing . . . it's a myth. No woman ever marries the man they have to hide. The adventure, the adrenaline, those things are fun while they last. But that kind of commitment is as temporary as the heartache you feel now. — Nicole Deese

The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff

Nothing has happened until it happens — Robert Holdstock

The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves. — John Fowles

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has. — Chris Wedge

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. — Elizabeth Strout

Joseph stood, his gaze traveling over Connor's clean-shaven face and hairless chest, his lips curving in a grin. What's this? The Cub is not so furry. — Pamela Clare

It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do. — Ellen Wittlinger

Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed. — Akiane Kramarik

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved. — Henri Nouwen

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. — Michel De Montaigne