Quotes About Story

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

Sí, la recuerdo menudo y conservo su historia en uno de mis múltiples bolsillos para contarla una y otra vez. Es una más de la pequeña legión que llevo conmigo, cada una de ellas extraordinarias a su modo. Todas son un intento, un extraordinario intento de demostrarme que vosotros, y la existencia humana, valéis la pena.

The book thief had struck for the first time - the beginning of an illustrious career.

Cuando empezó a escribir su historia se preguntó por el momento exacto en que los libros y las palabras no sólo comenzaron a tener algún significado, sino que lo significaban todo

Keep living Ed...It's only the pages that stop here.

Kiedy zdecydowa?a si? opisa? swoj? histori?, rozwa?a?a dok?adnie, od kiedy ksi??ki i s?owa zacz??y znaczy? nie tylko to, co znaczy?y, lecz wszystko.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words stated not just to mean something, but everything.

It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors- an expert at being eft behind.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started not just to mean something, but everything.

El misterio me aburre, es una lata. [...] Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.

When she came to write her story, she would wonder exactly when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything

Certo che sei reale», leggo, «come lo è qualunque pensiero, qualunque storia. Diventa tutto reale quando tu ci sei dentro.»

Max, she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. There was once a strange, small man, she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. But there was a word shaker, too.

When Death has a story to tell; you listen.

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

La investigación es, o debe ser, una ciencia exacta y debería recibir un tratamiento igual de frío y objetivo. Tú has intentado revestirlo de romanticismo, lo cual tiene prácticamente el mismo resultado que si hubieras urdido una historia de amor o hubieras acudido al quinto axioma de Euclides.

This is a true story but I can't believe it's really happening. It's a murder story, too. I can't believe my luck. And a love story (I think), of all strange things, so late in the century, so late in the goddamned day.

All wars end up being reduced to statistics, strategies, debates about their origins and results. These debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them.

My friend, who loved above all things precision and concentration of thought, resented anything which distracted his attention from the matter in hand. And yet, without a harshness which was foreign to his nature, it was impossible to refuse to listen to the story of the young and beautiful woman

Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still. These relics have a history then? So much so that they are history.

But is not all life pathetic and futile? Is not his story a microcosm of the whole? We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow—misery.

It was a curious thing, said the private tutor; one of those grotesque and whimsical incidents which occur to one as one goes through life. I lost the best situation which I am ever likely to have through it. But I am glad that I went to Thorpe Place, for I gained — well, as I tell you the story you will learn what I gained.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

But it's hard to say where experience ends and imagination begins. The story is by no means a true story. But the feelings in it are.