Stories Quotes
Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.
If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.
The Bible is man in a nutshell. Good and evil live side by side in the same book. That's why it's cherished. The good find in it encouragement, the weak solace, the evil, justification.
Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.
It’s the ability to love anyone and anything that’s the most powerful force in the universe.
She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.
Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?
There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to one other person, neither a master nor a disciple. I sought an equal - a companion.
Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.
Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end.
Somehow they were entwining without touch, following a choreography laid down in time for lovers.
You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here... maybe somebody else picks it up over there.
When you’re here, an i in the Ocean, you’re no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you’re here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.
When a confident woman allows you to take over the care of her, you’re both elevated to a higher level.
Greed, corruption, violence, sin, deception all come from a lack of understanding that we’re all connected.
Why books...audiobooks... stories are created?...Films and Games!?- The answer, is very simple it 's in the name of patience.
I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories to get lost in, other worlds to live in when mine was so bleak.
What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?""Stories. And they give me hope.
I am Tessa Gray, ” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.
It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave.
Our stories are what we have, ” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?
Stories are there to entertain, preserve history, or serve a societal purpose of some kind.
But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.
We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.
There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.
The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...
I'm sorry to burden you, ' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories, ' he said, 'but tell them?
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give someone, knowing their stories.
I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.
According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Stories are a communal currency of humanity.
Stories, ' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to leap forward. Listen to the wrong myths, and we might even go back a few steps.