Quotes About Narrative

So I offer, in its place, a braid of stories meant to heal our relationship with the world.

We need to unearth the old stories that live in a place and begin to create new ones, for we are storymakers, not just storytellers.

The landscape has changed, but the story remains.

And we think of it as simply time, as if it were one thing, as if we understood it. Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story.

for we are storymakers, not just storytellers

As unpredictable as life may be, we have even less control over the stories they tell about us after we're gone.

So far, I'm understanding why the media reports on her disappearance were thin and vague. There's no narrative. Angelique was a good girl.

Stories," she says, "are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

No coincidence, no story.

Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Story is story, Stella said. It's a portal you walk through into another world. And this world—which usually sucks—just disappears.

One of the best things you can relate to is a detailed story.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

And you know what, Thin Elderly? Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams.

Sometimes he awoke with a feeling of fragments afloat in his sleep, but he couldn't seem to grasp them and put them together into something worthy of telling at the ritual.

Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story.

Sad parts are important. If I ever get to train a new young dreamgiver, that's one of the things I'll teach: that you must include the sad parts, because they are part of the story, and they have to be part of the dreams. ? Gossamer

Everything that you're a part of. Your own story fills you.

Pen told the tale, again; the repetition was beginning to seem more like the memory of a memory than the thing itself.

I figure we can tell events exactly as they happened, just leave out that one tiny detail." "You figure, do you? You must be using a different kind of math than the rest of the universe does.

I'm sorry, Lady Vorkosigan. We'll simply have to begin at the beginning. Please bear with me. Do I understand correctly you've had some sort of female trouble?" No, most of my troubles have been with males. Cordelia bit her tongue.

We may never know the true story behind the book, but the book has become a myth, and myth is truer than history.