“As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.”
“Without our listening, all the stories are the same story.”
“A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.”
“Nine days after Perreault first saw the woman in black, an Indonesian mother of four came out of her tent long enough to claim that the mermaid had risen, fully-formed, from the very center of the quake. One of her boys, hearing this, said that he d heard it was the other way around.”
“In wildlife photography, Journey is more imp than photograph. Because everyone will see photo, But only you know the journey and struggle behind that...!!”
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.”
“Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life s life-story.”
“Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn t understand I d invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.”
“Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.”
“She finds her solace in his diary. He finds himself in her memories. And two bodies playing two different characters in a story.”
“Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds”
“يجب على الناس ألا يتركوا المرايا معلقة في غرفهم أبدا، إلا بقدر ما يتركون دفتر شيكات مفتوحا أو خطابات اعتراف بجريمة بشعة.”
“I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”
“I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.”
“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.”
“Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing, and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate that suffering – and anything that puts meaning and beauty into the world in the form of story, helps people to live with more peace and purpose and balance, is deeply worthwhile.”
“لا أعرف لم تمسكت بك كل تلك الفترة، كان ذلك القصر الأفلاطوني معقل أفكاري التي صغتها قصائد عشق وترانيم أشواق اغتيلت قبل أن تكمل سنوات طفولتها الأولى.”