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These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known.

~ Bilal Tanweer

Bilal Tanweer City Loss Love Stories Strangers

Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.

~ Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry Grief Life Purpose Stories

How to read this book:Even after I was told my father was dead, I believed (I still believe) that I could fix everything- that if I logged enough miles in my VW and kept telling stories through the countless dead ends and breakdowns, I could undo the terrible tree events…not that I should have expected to with this particular power, which is incomplete (as I was forced to sell a few stories and procedures for time-of-money), full of holes. Sure, the book turns on, lights up; its fans whirr and the bookengine crunches. But some of the pages are completely blank; others hang by a thread. the book’s transmission is shot, too, so don’t’ be surprised if the book slips from one version to the next as you’re reading .Finally, the thermostat’s misked, so you should expect sudden changes in temperature, the pages might get cold, or it may begin to snow between paragraphs, or you may turn the page and get hit with a faceful of rain or blinding beams of sunlight.So go ahead. Do it-open the book. See? You see me, right? And I see you. See? I am reading your face, your eyes, your lips. I know the sufferdust on your brow. I can see you reading, and I can tell, too, when you are here, when you are absent, what you’ve read and how it affects you. There is no more hiding. I see your chords- your fratures, your cold gifts, where and when you’ve hurt people…your stories are written right there on your face!

~ Christopher Boucher

Christopher Boucher Grief Healing Stories

Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the answer. The plague had a knack for narrative closure.

~ Colson Whitehead

Colson Whitehead Apocalypse Grief Humour Stories

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of nonsense. But they had been wrong.

~ Leslie Marmon Silko

Leslie Marmon Silko Beliefs Imagination Inspirational No Boundaries Stories

As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people.

~ Michael Richardson

Michael Richardson Imagination Peret Stories Surrealism

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.

~ P.s. Bartlett

P.s. Bartlett Imagination Readers Settings Stories Writing

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

Margaret Peterson Haddix Author Imagination Stories

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

~ Sarah Cross

Sarah Cross Adventure Books Imagination Stories

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

~ C.s. Lewis

C.s. Lewis Fairy Tales Imagination Stories Storytelling

The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.But stories all...

~ William Joyce

William Joyce Battles Imagination Journeys Joy Lands Nicholas St North Possibilities Rise Of The Guardians Sorrow Stories Wonder

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

~ George R.r. Martin

George R.r. Martin Friednship Friends Home Stories Visiting

Often, the best stories aren't when someone pulls one 180-degree turn, but when someone pulls 180 one-degree turns: the stories when someone experiences a slow and, at times, indistinguishable evolution; the stories where a million tiny steps produce something so brilliant; the stories where perseverance and struggle go hand in hand.

~ Josh James Riebock

Josh James Riebock Friends Josh Riebock Life My Generation People Stories

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early... Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be journalism.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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Love that Literature.

~ S. Mcpherson

S. Mcpherson Believe Dream Read Stories Storytelling Write

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

~ Vera Nazarian

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Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

~ George R.r. Martin

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Our dreams and stories may contain implicit aspects of our lives even without our awareness. In fact, storytelling may be a primary way in which we can linguistically communicate to others—as well as to ourselves—the sometimes hidden contents of our implicitly remembering minds. Stories make available perspectives on the emotional themes of our implicit memory that may otherwise be consciously unavailable to us. This may be one reason why journal writing and intimate communication with others, which are so often narrative processes, have such powerful organizing effects on the mind: They allow us to modulate our emotions and make sense of the world.

~ Daniel J. Siegel

Daniel J. Siegel Meaning Memory Narratives Neuropsychology Stories Unconscious

People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people

~ Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray Memory Songs Stories

What spares us is memory,” he said. “It’s what makes us worth saving. However low we sink, whatever promise we no longer fulfill, we tell our stories. That’s why you’re so important, Charlie. You’re a guardian of our national memory.

~ Frederick Weisel

Frederick Weisel Frederick Weisel Memory Stories Teller Weisel

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Sharon Salzberg Buddhism Love Memory Self Confidence Self Love Stories Tragedy

We ourselves, will resurrect the memory in order to savor it and carry it forth into the world. We will fling it at one another for laughs. Distort it. We will toss the story into the air at parties and howl over its ripeness. Degraded as it was, we will degrade it further. Make it more swollen. We shall render it impossibly awful, making of it the mythology of ourselves. A comfort. Proof of the trials we've survived.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk Memory Past Stories

A chair can be more valuable in memories than, say, a precious gem. A gem could have no stories to share; no lives altered or changed in the slightest. It could remain buried beneath the earth for all we know and never have any memory to embody. A chair could transcend time and generations; from the people who sat in it and onlookers. It's all about considering what stories could be told if they had voices of their own.

~ Lauren Lola

Lauren Lola Chair Gem Memory Stories Time Value

It was one of the few stories we told the same way.

~ Gillian Flynn

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What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

~ Okey Ndibe

Okey Ndibe Memory Stories Storytelling

There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

~ Steven Hall

Steven Hall Existential Life And Death Memory Narrative Stories

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

~ Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust Memory Stories The Past

We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.

~ Patricia Hampl

Patricia Hampl Memory Patricia Hampl Stories Wounds

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.

~ Wilkie Collins

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People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

~ Alan Moore

Alan Moore Life Memory Stories Strange Truth

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

~ Saša Stanišić

Saša Stanišić Lies Memories Memory Stories Truth

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

~ Marita Golden

Marita Golden Dedications Father Memory Mother Parents Remember Stories

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

~ Candace Fleming

Candace Fleming Immortality Memory Stories

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt Memory Past Present Stories

You should never turn down the offer of another man’s story,’ the fox persisted, moving off a little further into the trees ahead. ‘Stories are the only thing that separates us from the animals after all.

~ T.b. Mckenzie

T.b. Mckenzie Fox Magic Stories
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