Quotes about story

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“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

“Let me tell you something straight off. This is a love story, but not like any you've ever heard. The boy and the girl are far from innocent. Dear lives are lost. And good doesn't win.”

“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”

“I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.”

“I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.”

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

“Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.”

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”

“No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.”

“So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.”

“He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending. I swear!”

“Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.”

“You will have only one story,” she had said. “You’ll write your one story many ways. Don’t ever worry about story. You have only one.”

“Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.”

“Another story must begin!”

“The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.”

“You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?”

“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."

(, 3 October 1892)”

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to”

“Death steals everything except our stories.”

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

“Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.”

“Tell me a story of deep delight.”

“All we have is the story we tell.”

“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”

“A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.”

“Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.”

“If my mom told one more story about how cute I looked in the bathtub when I was three years old I was going to burrow into the snow and freeze myself to death.”

“… along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”

“Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.”

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

“If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.”

“It's only a story, isn't it?"…
"Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?”

“When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.”

“Stories never really end… even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”

“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.”

“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

“It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.”

“Tell them stories.”

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”

“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.”

“Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else.
Even when there is no one.”

“He snorted. “He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero.” None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.”

“we become the stories we tell ourselves”

“Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.”

“Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.”

“The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.”

“WARNING
If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment”

“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other.”

“Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys…”

“Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”

“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

“I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables.”

“Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you.

Commander Julius Root”

“Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin…”

“This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.”

“The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.”

“As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.”

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

“Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do”

“All stories teach, whether the storyteller intends them to or not. They teach the world we create. They teach the morality we live by. They teach it much more effectively than moral precepts and instructions.”

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

“If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.”

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

“The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.”

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”

“Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time.

What are we but our stories?”

“Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you….”

“People who understand everything get no stories.”

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

“We are surrounded by story.”

“When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.”

“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

“A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.”

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

“Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself”

“Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?”

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”

“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.”

“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”

“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”

“Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.”

“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

“Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop”

“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”

“hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.”

“Everyone's got a different story.”

“But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.”

“Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.”

“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are those in which the ending is a surprise.”

“the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all”