Deni

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“But all of art is childish, all storytelling, all human hope and fear.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“He only mourns their child, who passed so swiftly from birth to death, exchanging one oblivion for another like a sleeper rolling over.”
― Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock