“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

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

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

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

“The writer doesn’t push story into us, he withholds information in order that we draw his story out of ourselves.”

“The questions I want to ask will revolve around humans, connection, relationships, family, and stories - what are the stories we tell ourselves and each other?”

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

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