Great stories need not be hundreds or thousands of pages long. They can happen in the space of just one sentence. A story becomes great when it allows your mind to freely travel to fantastical places or when it fills your heart with profound emotions.

Someone put up a question on Quora - What are some of the best one-line stories? - and the Internet responded with some witty and beautiful one-line stories. Some give you serious feels.

We picked 18 for you:

1. She loves him , he misses her , no one knows.

2. What if after you die, God asks you , "So, how was heaven?

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4. The fool didn't know it was impossible, so he did it.

5. Those who had coins, enjoyed in the rain, those who had notes were busy looking for the shelter.

6. They tried to bury us - They didn't realize we're seeds.

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8. When I called her, her phone was engaged and when I met her, she was engaged.

9. All my life I believed that there were no monsters in my room because I looked in the closet, under my desk and under my bed- until one day it told me to look up.

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11.  "She delivered a healthy baby. And there I was holding a new life, with death all around." - Said the Nepalese Gynaecologist who operated upon a woman, few hours after the earthquake.

12. I met my soulmate, he didn't.

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14. I fell in love, and he just stood there.

15. He traveled around the world for a year and only felt lost once he got home.

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17. Her coffee was getting cold as she waited for him to miss her, while his cigarettes were running one after another trying to forget her.

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