Stories and Scripts Quotes

“Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"

From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.



From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."

From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Steve's throat swelled with tension as the intimacy of the moment became more tangible. He moved his eyes from the dark, reflective river, to the dark, reflective pupils in Diane's eyes. They seemed to quiver with tenderness - but then they would grow distant. He found himself continually surprised at the "aliveness" of the person standing just a foot away from him now. She wasn't inanimate: she would flinch if he pinched her, and answer if he asked her. And she was beautiful." -- From "The Grand Unified Story" -- a short story in Zack Love's Stories and Scripts: an Anthology”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Let the park live in you until it sings you a song.”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Night had fallen, and Diane admired the deep sky behind Steve's calm countenance. They looked into each other's eyes again and felt the spark and excitement of discovery. As if to celebrate the perfect, life-enabling distance of the earth from the sun, Diane and Steve kissed again."
"-The Grand Unified Story (a Short Story) from Stories and Scripts: an Anthology”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?

RODNEY: Poetry.

TYRONE: Poetry?

Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes.

RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our lives developed in the darkrooms of our souls."

From CENTRAL PARK SONG -- a screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza?”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“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, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“I wish I knew how to get you back. And apparently fate won't let me give up"


From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“...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, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“New York City is legendary for sleeping around. There's hot tail everywhere and it's such a big city that two-timing and even three-timing is very doable, if you plan it right."


From "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever. (a Short Story)”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“And just as I'm about to lay on the Yi-Wang-Smooth, I see Lay #1 and Lay #3 show up to our table and take the two empty seats nearby.

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“This was getting uglier by the minute, I thought. There really was no easy escape, since we were sitting far from the exit and the waiters knew me from prior dinner dates with Ashley and I hadn't paid the tab yet.

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“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, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Summoning my inner Kojak, I tried to convince myself that she would have sat next to me even had there been somewhere else on the bus to sit. Unfortunately, I didn't do a very good job of self-persuasion. Good thing I wasn't in court suing myself, because I would have lost.

From: "My Best Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Everyone needs beauty. Even beautiful people"


From "Central Park Song”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“It's not how long you see something. It's how you intensely you feel it"


From Central Park Song: a Screenplay”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“If I could do all of that on February 14th, it would be a personal best for me. Something to share with my crew for the glory and the laughs, or to cheer up the next buddy of mine to get dumped or cheated on.

From "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: A Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Everything is going as planned until I notice that Ashley has barely touched her wine glass or food after ordering the priciest bottle and several of the most expensive dishes on the menu.

From "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology

“Like a driver who has lost control of his vechicle, I was bracing for the impending crash."

From: "My Worst Valentine's Day.Ever: a Short Story”
― Zack Love, Stories and Scripts: an Anthology