Alexia

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album