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  Stories Quotes - Stop entertaining two faced people   “...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent   “...each one's different. They have similar elements, though. All stories do, no matter what form they take. Something was, and then something changed. Change is what story is, after all.” ― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea   “Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.” ― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow   “The books were legends and tales, stories from all over the Realm. These she had devoured voraciously – so voraciously, in fact, that she started to become fatigued by them. It was possible to have too much of a good t...

  Stories Quotes - Stories come alive in the telling   “This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!” ― Hiro Mashima, Fairy Tail, Vol. 01   “So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it –   – we all get to dream.” ― N.K. Jemisin   “The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.   But stories all...” ― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King   “What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than...

  Stories Quotes - All we have is the story we tell   “You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.” ― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story   “I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?” ― David Byrne, How Music Works   “Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too b...

  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 ca...

  Stories Quotes - Stories are like spiders   “Myths do not happen all at once. They do not spring forth whole into the world. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words—to the memories—to keep them rolling on their own. But all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.” ― V.E. Schwab, A Conjuring of Light   “Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.” ― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys   “There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” ― ursula le guin   “I just knew there were ...