Quotes About Narratives

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

I am probably an outsider because I challenge conventional narratives about who should have a seat at the table.

faces tell stories if you learn to read them!

Particular stories call us to accountability," feminist social ethicist Sharon Welch explains.50

I needed the stories of women.

Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted narratives purged.

There are many stories," Unlikely Worlds said, "but most follow similar patterns.

We were brought together by two stories that barely even shook hands with each other in the midst of everything that happened.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

I'd need to praise each of the columnists at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian, who've worked tirelessly to avoid facts that might contradict their narratives.

That illustrates my rule of thumb for reading history: View with suspicion any anecdote that makes a good enough story to have survived on its literary merits.

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

Dicen que cuando una es feliz, se queda sin historias que contar

The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.

they all believed, without any sort of doubt, that they deserved to be heard, that their words ought to be heard, that the narratives of their faultless lives must be heard. They all had the same unwavering certainty my father had. And I understood that this was the certainty that Bevel wanted on the page.

He could no more lie than any of the Folk, but stories were the closest thing to lies the Folk could tell.

Emotions supersede parables.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Once we go through the S.O.U.L. practice, we start to understand the narratives and false beliefs we have in our heads from our childhoods that no longer serve us. We're then able to see the world through a new framework: We move from Victim to Manifester. We put a leash on our dominant Imposter and let it serve us, instead of being subservient to it.

Poppy's hands fall on to the book. 'Stories', she says, 'are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.