“Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?”
Scott Turow book Ordinary Heroes
Source: Ordinary Heroes
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, book Haunted
Source: Haunted (2005)
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