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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

her stories make you believe in the power of love

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps.

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president.

Hillary Clinton's been around for 30 years. Why do these stories need to be told? It isn't all of this widely known?

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.