Stories are a different kind of true.
– Emma Donoghue
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- For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. – Emma Donoghue
- … where there’s one there’s ten.’That’s crazy math. – Emma Donoghue
- Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. – Emma Donoghue
- People move around so much in the world, things get lost. – Emma Donoghue
- And why must it always be presumed that a woman’s views are based on personal considerations? – Emma Donoghue
- Men never feel quite the same about a woman’s body once they know it’s done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby’s head. – Emma Donoghue
- The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. – Emma Donoghue
- The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. – Emma Donoghue
- Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory. – Emma Donoghue
- …real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing. – Emma Donoghue
- In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t. – Emma Donoghue
- Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. – Emma Donoghue
- Nowadays ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself. – Emma Donoghue
- I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn’t add up to an hour. – Emma Donoghue
- You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. – Emma Donoghue
- That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others. – Emma Donoghue
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Kindness is contagious. When we are kind, then we inspire others to be kind. – Emma J Bell
- The worst stories usually make you think: ‘but nobody had to die’.These are called true stories. – Moonshine Noire
- What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true? – Rick Chiantaretto
- What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true. – Rick Chiantaretto
- Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder
- The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. – Mitch Albom
- What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
- We have our stories, and we speak of them, and weave them into other people’s stories – that’s how it goes, does it not? – Susan Fletcher
- Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
- There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds. – Kelly Barnhill
- Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic. – Joan Holub
- I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories. – Jim C Hines
- There’s no future in stories…Stories are things of the past, things for museums. – David Mitchell
- A disproportionate number of stories are love stories -“ and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? – Christopher Bram
- …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
- When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it’s an odd feeling to switch stories. – Donald Miller
- Wrong decisions make a good stories, lies make a very good stories – Nourhan Mamdouh
- The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful – Lee BiceMatheson
- Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves. – Karen Healey
- We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about ‘coming back,’ and so on. But they are all stories. – Steve Hagen
- We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. – Danielle Ganek