“Stories were ruthless creatures and sometimes fattened themselves on bloody happenings.”
“We all create the stories we need to survive”
“You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.”
“What are stories for if we don t learn from them?”
“That is the problem with stories, child. The truth in them cannot be weighed.”
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”
“We owe it to each other to tell stories.”
“Brain Child. Making up stories from my brain since 1986.”
“You begin with other people s stories and end up with your own.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don t rhyme, and some stories don t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
“Don t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
“Stories don t always have happy endings. This stopped him. Because they didn t, did they? That s one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn t expect.”
“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”
“I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.”