Most people aren’t happy. They sing songs like they are. Make up cute little stories. Post pics of the rare times when life wasn’t dreadful. Most people are stomaching this whole affair called life. Are these people complainers? Probably. Most ar...
We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love ar...
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interw...
On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk? He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking ...
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you kno...
I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and with tubes coming out of every part of your body. And I realized I wasn't getting away with anything. Just like you didn't get away with anything. You we...
Do you want to be in your own story or on the outside writing about it? Everyone battles fear and uncertainty every day. However, the only failure in life is believing that your value relies on other people's approval or resources. The reality is thi...
At the tattoo parlor, my friend worked with needle and ink applying a design to the skin on his client's back, as the three of us sat discussing our spiritual desires and ambivalence about religion. In the midst of our conversation, the man under the...
There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
Kalau melihat kesuksesan orang lain, seharusnya kita jangan mau kalah.
Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story.
I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.
To my abusers: I forgive you.
People grow, but they don't change.
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
Authors do not choose a story to write, the story chooses us.
Become your own success story, not someone else's.
As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
The Bible is the greatest love story ever told.
If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.
