Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.
Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.
Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?
I didn't want to remember...yet in remembering, it dawned on me - finally - just how far down God had reached to free me.
Soul Mates psychically sense their Exalted Bond through the sweet whispers of their Soul."-Author Serena Jade
Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story. Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.
There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?
it smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.
Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.
Molly wondered if these boys really loved baseball, the sound and smell of it, the rhythm of it, the leather and wood, the grass and dirt, the story and surprise in a good game.
It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.
History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.
It's not so much that I mind listening to her stories. Everybody likes to have an audience - that's why most people have kids, isn't it?
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
What is it like to wear another person’s skin?” “I don’t have a good answer for that,” I said. “It hurts.” “Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?
You must have come from very far down," Alice says to the fish, "to have your own lantern.
The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.
