Stories
Quotes - Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones
“Books
are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times
they're amiable and sometimes not.”
―
China Miéville, The City & the City
“You’re
a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded.
"Something beautiful and full of monsters."
“Beautiful
and full of monsters?"
“All
the best stories are.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“I
was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never
heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into
utter despair.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury
“What
she needs are stories.
Stories
are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories
come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films.
And books.
Books,
she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very
long one.”
―
V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Listen,
and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made
from stories.”
―
Mia Couto
“A
good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction
“Stories
are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and
hunt.”
―
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
“Stories
have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost
imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no
monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly
capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth
something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts
and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take
different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are
never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur,
your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and
there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal
more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little
girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply
acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to
such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.”
―
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“You're
both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the
protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You
are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”
―
John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
“Make
it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a
joke.”
―
Joss Whedon
“Stories
don't always have happy endings."
This
stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had
definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in
directions you couldn't expect.”
―
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
“Word
spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed
new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”
―
China Miéville, Embassytown
“Stories,
like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams,
are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than
twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the
air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been
spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple
ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles
and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them
have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“Carve
your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of
others and the stories they share about you.”
―
Shannon Alder
“I
think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite.
And I hope you'll let me be in your story.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“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?”
―
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“I mean,
most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories
are the easiest way to do that.”
―
Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song
“Stories
are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell
Gregory a story. Make some light.”
―
Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
