#story

"He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again."

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do."

"Your love story, I don’t want to give away the ending, but both you and your lover die."

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

"Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]"

"Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories."

"There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on."

"Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story."

"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips."

"It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell."

"If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity."

"Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves."

"Stories are verbal acts of hospitality."

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart."

"New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?"To which the man responded, "That's your worry."

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."