Short Love Story Quotes

#1. Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it
love yourself

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Gods, the love that saturated the room was so potent that Arabella couldn't breathe.
This was what she wanted. Someone who wouldn't let go, someone who would love her so much he'd wait decades to be reunited with her.

Libby Bishop

#3. Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

Zack Love

#4. I have this uncanny knack of falling for the most irrelevant men,my love story would be comprising of short stories.

Pushpa Rana

#5. An intense longing builds inside me, and I fight the urge to propel myself forward and grab her into my arms.

Siobhan Davis

#6. Ariana strikes me as the type of girl who is attracted to authenticity.

Siobhan Davis

#7. Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. love happens between two souls.

Haidji

#8. In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

Zack Love

#9. 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 ...

Lawrence Block

#10. I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

Lori Lansens

#11. I am unbelievably nervous.
It is most unlike me.
This girl is really messing with my mojo.

Siobhan Davis

#12. I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#13. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

#14. I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

Luisa Valenzuela

#15. I want to feel like I'm making a difference in this world. And I want some time for living rather than just working. Life is for living, isn't it? It can't be all just for working

Zack Love

#16. You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

A. Merc Rustad

#17. Oh no. I'm not gonna let you leave yet. I'm gonna show you the value of takin' your time to get to work. I probably should have done this a long time ago.

Zack Love

#18. That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide.

Jay Caselberg

#19. I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.

Coco J. Ginger

#20. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Zack Love

#21. A Very Short Poem for Poor Lovers
You've got nothing,
I've got nothing,
And it's not a good thing.

Arzum Uzun

#22. Exactly. You like me. The word you use was like. You'll find someone better than me. Someone you'll love and not just like.

Kristine Cuevas

#23. Most of the girls I've met since moving here have failed to ignite any modicum of enduring interest. Of course, I've dated; I'm seventeen years old and as horny as the next guy.

Siobhan Davis

#24. While I AM sure of what I want, I'm equally unsure of how to attain it.

Siobhan Davis

#25. It takes both sides to build a bridge.

Fredrik Nael

#26. I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

Siobhan Davis

#27. I fell in love with her suddenly, deeply, in the most all-consuming way.

Siobhan Davis

#28. A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Erica Jong

#29. And I thought I knew him. I knew him; I repeat it in my head bitterly. It's a funny thing to say, you know, to think that you know someone. Well, maybe once I DID know him, but I just wasn't smart enough to notice him change, because people do change, sometimes we just choose not to notice it.

Melanie Sargsian

#30. The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.

Gemma Farrow

#31. I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

George R R Martin

#32. I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

Sarah Waters

#33. Beach houses along short sandy streets. He can feel her bare forarm brushing his, and it's strange she's being so quiet. He glances down at her and she smiles up at him as if, in his silence, he's been telling a long story and she is simply listening to it.

Andre Dubus III

#34. I walked him down to the front door, and the Savannah air assaulted me as I opened the door. "This town was never the same without you." He turned around and started his short walk home, disappearing into the black of the night.

Alexandria Rhodes

#35. I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I've also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too.

Chayada Welljaipet

#36. But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

Demetri Martin

#37. Love is not all you need. I need time ... a lot of it. Love won't help me forget. It was the reason why I'm like this. It was all the reason behind this pain I am feeling. Because. Of. Love.

Kristine Cuevas

#38. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

Siobhan Davis

#39. At times like these, size really does matter, I point out, at I extend my ginormous umbrella over her in a way that stops any rain droplets from falling on her.
My Best Valentine's Day Ever, A Short Story by Zack Love

Zack Love

#40. The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

Lin Yutang

#41. The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn't seen in a long time, passion.

Suzan Battah

#42. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Lorrie Moore

#43. When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

George Saunders

#44. I've been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want?

Chayada Welljaipet

#45. I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me.

Siobhan Davis

#46. One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

Tobias Wolff

#47. Shaw Centre has restaurants on the fourth floor, where the ACS boy can pull chairs out for her. Girls love this because no one else does it for them, especially not those sotong RI boys.

Justin Ker

#48. My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending

M. Christina White

#49. The weakness of a man is the strength of a woman

Santosh Avvannavar

#50. For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

Eudora Welty

#51. His love with Lucy bled from his heart as he slipped into a dark despair - a melancholy that only she could sever with her chaste voice and tender kisses. Now in an unreachable darkness, a blindness took hold. A blood lust that would drive him mad for five years hence.

Solange Nicole

#52. It's the first instance where I believe that it might actually be wrong, the first time I feel like a bit of a creep.

Siobhan Davis

#53. I am in love with a pianist, without his piano what is he?

Jai Clare

#54. I need to master the art of talking to her before I can even contemplate anything else.

Siobhan Davis

#55. I'm mistaken ... .
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.

Coco J. Ginger

#56. Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery.

Zack Love

#57. This time, Chantelle noticed a cheerful yellow bouquet of daisies and a small scar below Tom's soft, red lips that she'd never seen before.

Dianne Bright

#58. Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Katherine Mansfield

#59. Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.

Daphne Du Maurier

#60. 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.

Donald Barthelme

#61. And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, "It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia"
City Solipsism: A Short Story

Zack Love

#62. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

#63. So I'm delighted to open up a bit about these particular details, in honor of Valentine's Day (when every balding, chubby, and short actuary wants people - especially the babes out there - to know about his studly past"
From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story

Zack Love

#64. My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

Ang Lee

#65. I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Julie Orringer

#66. Baby, don't build a monument for me of your sadness. You wouldn't have wasted your tears when I was alive. Why make an ocean of them now when it's over? The future you dreamed is a dream. Dream something else.

Stephanie Roberts

#67. You can write when you're dyslexic, you just can't read it. But I started writing short stories as a child and I found the short story format a real nice one. I love short stories and I love short documentaries or short films of any kind.

Billy Bob Thornton

#68. I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form.

Kevin Barry

#69. Let's start over shall we? Hello gorgeous. I'm Justin McKinley. I'm head baker at Le Chef Petite. I'd love to get to know you better. Can I seduce you with my vast knowledge of sweet and sensual desserts?
Alicia couldn't help it. She giggled. One of those girly, I've-been-flirting bubbly

Lea Barrymire