#tory

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#resolutions #story

Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#nicholas-sparks #story

A moment of reserve. "That was it? The whole story?" "Yes. God, you're right. That was pants." I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. "Pants?" "Rubbish. Crap. Shite." Pants. Oh heavens, that's cute. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#story

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#story

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#story

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. ↗

— Stephen King

#story

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#suicide #story

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that... there are many kinds of magic, after all. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#gifts #magic #past #possibilities #stories

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory. ↗

— Alison Goodman

#defeat #victory #character

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #story