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  1. Kate DiCamillo _ The Tale of Despereaux

    Stories are light.
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  2. Kate DiCamillo _ The Tale of Despereaux

    Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.
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  3. James S.A. Corey _ Babylon's Ashes

    But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people."
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  4. Alain de Botton _ The News: A User's Manual

    Properly told, stories are able to operate on two levels. On the surface, they deal with involving a range of facts related to a given time and place, a local culture and a social group--and it is these specifics that tend to bore us whenever they lie outside of our own experience. But then, a layer beneath the particulars, the are hidden: the psychological, social and political themes that transcend the stories' temporal and geographical settings and are founded on unvarying fundamentals of human nature.
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  5. Jess Walter _ Beautiful Ruins

    All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is ; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing:
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  6. Mike Carey _ The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy

    I learn about how stories work for the same reason that soldiers learn how to strip a rifle.You should, too.
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  7. Neil Gaiman _ Stories: All-New Tales

    Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there.It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.
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  8. Neil Gaiman _ Preludes & Nocturnes

    All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
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  9. Neil Gaiman _ Fables & Reflections

    Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
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  10. Neil Gaiman _ Fables & Reflections

    Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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  11. David James Duncan _ River Teeth

    There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind."
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  12. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Committed: A Skeptic Makes

    This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. {p.237}
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