Quotes About Narrative

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.

We are the authors of the stories our soul unfolds.

Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology define dialectically.

My mother tells Tina that she doesn't like books where the protagonist is established as Sad on page one. Okay, she's sad! We get it, we know what sad is, and then the whole book is basically a description of the million and one ways in which our protagonist is sad. Gimme a break! Get on with it!

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Demano un breu respir. L'Ona Friesen em torna a mirar encuriosida, potser el que la intriga és la idea d'un «respir» (de ben segur que és una paraula que no havia sentit mai, ni en una traducció), o potser l'encurioseix la idea d'un respir sostingut, l'exquisida angoixa del pensament no expressat, de la narració de la vida, del fil que lliga, que ferma, que reté. Un respir, un alè, sostinguts. La narrativa. Les dones me'l concedeixen.

We are aware of many things, instinctively, says Ona quietly, but to have them articulated in a certain narrative way is pleasing and fun.

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't me you stop telling the story.

learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

The tale of your life is written second by second, as shifting as the flip of a pencil to an eraser.

Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends badly.

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Small towns begin with a sign. The words can be as simple as the title of a story--Welcome to Harberville, Now entering Clawson--but once you cross, you are inside that story, and all that you do will be part of its tale.

you don't understand. I want to tell you about my life. I want to tell you before I can't tell you anymore." His voice dropped to a whisper. "I want someone to hear my story. Will you?

but her absence was like a character in it.

Každý život má dvÄ› verze; tu, co ?lovÄ›k žije, a tu, co vyprávÄ›jí ostatní.

The stories we tell yourselves long enough become our truths

He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

With each new carving, he spoke out loud. He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Par katru dz?vi ir divi st?sti: tas, ko tu izdz?vo, un tas, ko st?sta citi.