Quotes About Narrative

Über Liebe, als Beziehung zwischen den Geschlechtern gebe es nichts Neues mehr zu berichten, das habe die Literatur dargestellt in allen Varianten ein für allemal, das sei für die Literatur, sofern sie diesen Namen verdient, kein Thema mehr - solche Verlautbarungen sind zu lesen; sie verkennen, daß das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern sich ändert, daß andere Liebesgeschichten stattfinden werden.

Jeder Mensch erfindet sich früher oder später eine Geschichte, die er für sein Leben hält, [...] oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten [...].

Ich bin auf Erfahrungen angewiesen, die ich nicht begrifflich fassen kann, die mich hilflos machen und von daher narrativ.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

I couldn't tell where the stories left off and the dreams began, her voice the voice of the heroines in my sleep.

To be allowed, no, invited into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.

My audience listened, mouths agape, as I reeled my story before them. Their imaginations had been good, but mine was better. They had been amusing themselves, but I was motivated by the desire to escape.

The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Biography is often a transparent contest for possession.

Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, "an aggregate of information without a narrative" or a "grand non-narrative" (O38). This results in part from industrial changes. By the '90s, any product can spawn all the others: a series of stickers or a company logo could bloom into a series of manga, TV or film anime, games and more. By now "the narrative is only a surplus item

And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There's clear and substantiated proof they were real.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

Tell me a story then...keep me occupied. A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story? Insight, said the king, Go on.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.

We're the villains you root for in the story.

Everything Amelia had posted online had been a lie, yes. The relatable, inspirational, authentic girl had been a fraud all along. Josh had been too swept up in his own narrative to realize it had been Mignon's spirit she was mirroring back to him.

You have a long history, he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy. Lanya glanced at the sky.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Women talk about love. From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject...Femaleness in patriarchal culture marks us from the very beginning as unworthy or not as worthy, and it should come as no surprise that we learn to worry most as girls, as women, about whether we are worthy of love.

It is far too easy to stay stuck in simply describing, telling one's story over and over again, which can be a way of holding on to grief about the past or holding on to a narrative that places blame on others.