Prongs

“A boring truth will always have difficulty competing with an exciting lie.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“The rage dissipates along with the love, and all we’re left with is a story.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“Memory is often our only connection to who we used to be. Memories are fossils, the bones left by dead versions of ourselves. More potently, our minds are a hungry audience, craving only the peaks and valleys of experience. The bland erodes, leaving behind the distinctive bits to be remembered again and again. Painful or passionate, surreal or sublime, we cherish those little rocks of peak experience, polishing them with the ever-smoothing touch of recycled proxy living. In so doing—like pagans praying to a sculpted mud figure—we make of our memories the gods which judge our current lives.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“Dey takes the lies dey want and throws away the truths dat scares ’em.”
― Percival Everett, James