#tories

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 truth is that we are all stories. Lies are just part of the story that we tell. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#stories #truths #design

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#rats #stories #education

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#healthy #ideas #irrationality #love #love-stories

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start! ↗

— Hiro Mashima

#stories #friendship

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#stories #story #humor

I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I’ve also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too. ↗

— Chayada Welljaipet

#eternal-love #romance #romance-love #romance-novel #romance-novels

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#inspirational #songs #stories #inspirational

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative. ↗

— Michel Faber

#realism #short-stories #intelligence

Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last. ↗

— Marisha Pessl

#stories #life

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#life