I wanted to wake him and see those eyes open. A thousand thousand times I had seen it, but I never tired of it.
“It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history. It can save a life. But it can also be a sinkhole, a quicksand in which you become stuck, unable to write yourself free.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
“Isn’t it kind of dangerous to live in the past?” “No more dangerous than living in the present and realizing nothing’s changed,” Leo says.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
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