All Quotes By Tag: Stories
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“If you skipped some chapters in a book it wouldn’t make much sense would it? Allow your story to unfold and connect as it should with faith that better chapters are ahead.”
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“Varya has had enough therapy to know that she’s telling herself stories. She knows her faith–that rituals have power, that thoughts can change outcomes or ward off misfortune–is a magic trick: fiction, perhaps, but necessary for survival. And yet, and yet: Is it a story if you believe it?”
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“Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.”
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“The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.”
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“No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done…(from ‘The Storyteller Poems’)”
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“Then you are a poet?’ she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.’No not at all,’ he waved his hand. ‘I am merely a character in a poem.”
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“All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
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“When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.”
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“Maybe those stories did more harm than good by giving us false hope. All they did was reinforce our faith that the world was once made up almost entirely of magic or miracles. But where was that magic now, when we needed it?”
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“All you must do is say ‘Once there was…’ and let your hoping find the words.”
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“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
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“Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”
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