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Quotes About Story

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who has lived to tell his story, to tell what all who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nothing matters except for the harvest, the gathering in, the adding up, the bringing together, the whole story, the way it happens and happens and goes on happening. (from Collision)
~ Carol Shields
The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.
~ Caroline Alexander
What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.
~ Caroline Myss
And where are you going tonight? Katy asked. Cinderella and I are going to the ball. If she loses a glass slipper, I will bring it by tomorrow. He smiled.
~ Carolyn Brown
Dammit? Why would you give a dog such a name? Or is that a third date story too? No, it's only a dog story. Rhett smiled and the temperature in the store shot up several degrees. I named him Lambert after Miranda Lambert, but I guess he didn't like bein' named after a girl, so he sat there like a knot on a log every time I called him. So I'd say, 'Dammit, come here.' And here he'd come runnin' hell-bent for leather. So I gave up and called him Dammit.
~ Carolyn Brown
First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God.
~ Carolyn Custis James
Agnes once told me a story about the moon. She said, once its reflection touches the water it turns to gold; but you must never try to steal it, for if you did the night would lose its smile.' And she turned and looked at him as she ended, 'It's the only smile the night has, is the moon.
~ Catherine Cookson
Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan mind meld.
~ Cathy Maxwell
people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell
~ Cecelia Ahern
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Her life in ink.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Every table has a story
~ Cecelia Ahern
man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.
~ Cecelia Ahern
One man's lesson is another man's tale, but often, a man's tale can be another's lesson.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Every single ordinary person has an extra ordinary story
~ Cecelia Ahern
And now you'll be able to sail right through to the end." "I've already written the end. It was the beginning I couldn't write." "The story you just told me is part of your beginning?" "It is the myself that predates what I am now.
~ Chaim Potok
We reshape the story even when we believe we are simply repeating it.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
There is something universally chilling about a new plot. And I could see how my boy needed time and space for a story to bloom in his mind, because at any age what comes before sight is a conjuring. A trope, which is just a way to believe.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Well, they got married. No one pulled a Jane Eyre...
~ Charlaine Harris
We know this story isn't true, but it is truth.
~ Charlaine Harris
With 'Lady Lady' I wanted to tell a story bluntly, and that's what happened. The goal is to get Erykah Badu-ish with it because she super bares her soul and she's so blunt.
~ Masego
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
~ Don Bluth