Stories
Quotes - Everyone who tells a story tells it differently
“In
the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own
stories. ”
―
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
“I
only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories
themselves.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“Each
book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living
people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t
yet been completely told.”
―
Dean Koontz, Innocence
“Everyone
who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees
it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people
say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for
certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there
but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you
can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Never
trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections
“Think
of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His
parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?"
Bast
hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead.
"He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad
hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."
Kvothe
nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself
worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then
with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"
Chronicler
shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them."
"Of
course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We
know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us.
They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“There
are people.
There
are stories.
The
people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the
truth.
Stories
shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid
of man, there may yet be mythologies.”
―
Alan Moore, Swamp Thing, Vol. 2: Love and Death
“Stories
are like children. They grow in their own way.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“It’s
in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic
canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding
into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers,
warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris
and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but
it’s writ large, and we love it.”
―
Tom Hiddleston
“You
didn’t get what you deserved, but you don’t have to live inside that one story
forever. No one’s heart has to remain stone.”
―
Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“I
know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's
like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of
darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it
was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing,
this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun
shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with
you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I
think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots
of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they
were holding on to something.”
―
Samwise Gamgee
“What
are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?"
"Stories.
And they give me hope.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602
“There's
a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued:
a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race
coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is
only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of
meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation,
isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.”
―
Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back
“And
there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.”
―
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
“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.”
―
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“After
a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a
boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the
outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and
radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.”
―
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“And
now you'll be telling stories
of
my coming back
and
they won't be false, and they won't be true
but
they'll be real”
―
Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
“That
is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
―
Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree
“Of
course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
―
Margaret Thatcher
“As
the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.”
―
Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
“Don't
be afraid, child,
The
stories are always there.”
―
Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception
“All
stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last
pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you
will come back when spring comes again.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her
Own Making
“By
Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but
stories? Stories are the only truth.”
―
Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping
“I
am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the
importance of stories.”
―
Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend
“There's
no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They
are as infinite as worlds.”
―
Kelly Barnhill, Iron Hearted Violet
“It's
important to remember that we all change each other's minds all the time. Any
good story is a mind-altering substance.”
―
Hank Green, A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“He
drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some
otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it
all.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“Our
eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.”
―
Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3
