“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
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Anaïs Nin 278
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977Related quotes

“Only from our stories can we discover that our stories have come to an end”
Liquidation (2003)
Context: Only from our stories can we discover that our stories have come to an end, otherwise we would go on living as if there were still something for us to continue (our stories, for example); that is, we would go on living in error.

“We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see.”
2000s, 2001, First inaugural address (January 2001)
Context: We have a place, all of us, in a long story. A story we continue, but whose end we will not see. It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. It is the American story, a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born. Americans are called to enact this promise in our lives and in our laws. And though our nation has sometimes halted, and sometimes delayed, we must follow no other course.

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 16, p. 303
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)