Caitlin Hicks

“No point in dipping death into lemon curd.”
― Susan Örnbratt, The Particular Appeal of Gillian Pugsley

“When we care enough to ask and really take the time to listen to someone else's story we learn so much about who they are... listen with your heart.”
― Jennifer J. Hayes

“In facing our shattered life stories, we must reach deep inside our pain -- for it is here that we can break our silence and find our new voice.”
― Sandra Marinella, The Story You Need to Tell: Writing to Heal from Trauma, Illness, or Loss

“When we make stories, when we turn raw events into personal sagas, parables, tales, and anecdotes, we are often struggling to come to terms with one of the inescapably difficult and puzzling facts of existence. Storytelling is an attempt to deal with and at least partly contain the terrifyingly haphazard quality of life. Large parts of life, sometimes the mots crucial parts, depend on random happenings, contingency. A woman turns a corner, meets a strange man, two years later they marry, they have children together – and in twenty years, there are adults walking the earth who would not have existed if that woman had not turned that corner on that day. The human results of that apparently random event may go on for hundreds or even thousands of years, a single stray moment casting its shadow into an unimaginably long future. We can gaze on this fact with wonder; but we may also grow uneasy in contemplating it, because it emphasizes how little we control the course of our lives”
― Robert Fulford, The Triumph of Narrative