Quotes About Narrative

for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By the transport of books, that which is most foreign becomes one's familiar walks and avenues; while that which is most familiar is removed to delightful strangeness; and unmoving, one travels infinite causeways, immobile and thus unfettered.

It's foolhardy to think that a story ends

Surely another story could serve the same purpose, and lift her out of her solitude.

And perhaps you should get some new stories, so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom.

Later, years later, I would hear a song made of our meeting. [...] I was not surprised by the portrait of myself: the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.

You will pardon me if I do not rejoice at being one in a long line of villains.

Some had a whole epic, others just a verse

He was no storyteller, as he had said, but that made it more enjoyable somehow, watching his serious face as he described flying horses and golden apples.

There is this, too." His hand was ceaseless now. "I know I have told you of this." I closed my eyes. "Tell me again," I said.

They think of the stories that will be told, and they long to be in them.

Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.

The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.

Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

Our lives are not a random series of events; they tell a Story that has meaning.

Remember—the battle right now is for the narrative; who gets to frame the story for you? Either it will be God, or someone else. If you are "alarmed," something has drawn your attention away from the story of God. Let your fears, anxieties, anger, or rage alert you that you've been taken hostage; stop and get your bearings.

This is why, if you want to get to know someone, you need to know their story. Their life is a story. It, too, has a past and a future. It, too, unfolds in a series of scenes over the course of time.

Story is how we figure things out, bring order and meaning to the events around us. The story we hold at any given time shapes our perceptions, hopes, and expectations; it gives us a place to stand.

They are, mostly, sane people who are telling their story truthfully.

Nothing is real. All is fiction. Somewhere there's someone writing us, we're not real. He or she decides who we are, what we do, all about us.

had a flair for the narrative

Donovan shrugged and glanced around. He wasn't nervous or frightened; he just didn't want to be heard. He was calm and articulate with a slight mountain twang, and Samantha was captivated, both by his narrative and his dark eyes.

After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.