I'm never really upset when a person lies because I don't place much value in truths. When you look at the grand design, you realize that there are no truths, only stories. In other words, the only tr...
All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
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...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion
The story of the tree is written on every leaf.
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
Moral stories are always imaginary , but these stories induce real moral values in a human society .
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.
In almost all stories of promises and prohibitions, the promises and prohibitions carry with them the inevitability of failure, of their own breaking.
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
I am Tessa Gray, she said in a low, clear voice. And I believe in the importance of stories.
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimati...
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a .
Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a...
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.
We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.We lived in the gaps between the stories.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
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.
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.All of them?Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, captur...
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