#tories

Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life — are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. ↗

— Robert Moss

#life

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #life-quotes #victories #life

That night I slept like a baby. When I woke the next morning I knew I was going to smoke heroin again. Everything that day was enjoyable: sitting on the bus, working all day – it all felt good. It was the best day of my life. ↗

— Christine Lewry

#memoir #true-stories #true-stories-drugs #life

According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is. ↗

— Jincy Willett

#stories #life

My standards were, after all, abnormally high." - the fictional ghost of Hugh Hefner, lamenting on sex in the after-life. ↗

— Michael Czyzniejewski

#curbside-splendor #hugh-hefner #life

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#perspective #stories #love

True love stories never have endings. ↗

— Richard Bach

#love #love stories #never #stories #true

I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts. ↗

— Morgan Rhodes

#stories #love

Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scratching of a branch against the window at night, the steady insistence of it is comforting. She has stories without beginnings, stories that trail off, stories that crisscross and contradict and dead end. Toy is the star of her stories. Events orbit her like a constellation. ↗

— Erica Lorraine Scheidt

#stories #storytelling #love

...have you ever thought you knew someone--I mean really knew someone--then realized that the person you thought you knew only existed in your overextended mind... ↗

— Stephanie Verni

#age