Zapped while zipping.
Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my fat...
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never.
Imagination, like reality, has its limits.
His brain had the bends.
Fakat şu da doğru; hikayeler bizi kurtarabilir.
You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
Beyond
What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...
In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items...
Imagination is a killer.
Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
They shared the weight of memory. They took up what others could no longer bear. Often,
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when m...
Proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life.
Martha'nın akciğerlerinde uyumak, onun kanını solumak ve avutulmak istiyordu.
Is there sound, he wondered, without reception? Do you hear the shot that gets you? How big, in fact, was the Big Bang? Do our pathetic earthly squeals fall upon deaf ears? Is silence golden or common...
I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public...