“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“It's so easy to fall in love — it's so easy to fall in love.
People tell me love is for fools,
So here I go breaking all of the rules.”

“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.”

“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events — a story — and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.”

“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…”