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“All human beings, across every culture, gather in numbers and tell stories and come up with new ways of doing things. Creativity and social living are the only real constants that every single human species has had, from Australopithecus
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“Why do we tell stories? They are a universal human experience. Every culture I’ve ever visited, every people I’ve met, every human on every planet in every situation I’ve seen…they all tell stories. Men trapped alone for years tell them to themselves. Ancients leave them painted on the walls. Women whisper them to their babies. Stories explain us. You want to define what makes a human different from an animal? I can do it in one word or a hundred thousand. Sad stories. Exultant stories. Didactic morality tales. Frivolous yarns that, paradoxically, carry too much meaning. We need stories.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Liniştea deplină şi răcoarea pereţilor o mai liniştiră. Îşi sprijini capul în palme, gândindu-se că părinţii aveau să se întoarcă în câteva ore de la câmp şi aveau să ceară socoteală. Hotărî să nu facă niciuna dintre treburile casei şi să dea vina pe Ileana. Deodată, se auzi încet ticăitul unui ceas, venit parcă de undeva de departe. Maria ştia că era Ceasul casei. Ştia pentru că în casa lor din chirpici, cu patru odăi, pod şi două hornuri, nu se găsea niciun orologiu. Părinţii ei se culcau şi se trezeau odată cu găinile, iar când primele raze ale dimineţii luminau ograda, mumă-sa deja mulgea vaca, iar taică-său înhăma boii. Ticăitul se auzea de undeva din pereţi şi se oprea la cel mai mic zgomot. Mai știa că era Ceasul casei pentru că aşa îi spusese bunică-sa cu ani în urmă, înainte să închidă ochii şi să plece departe, în acea poieniţă înflorită unde, pesemne, este mereu primăvară şi fluturi albi şi blânzi zboară purtaţi de vântul cald. Auzise că atât timp cât ceasul ticăia, casa era ferită de rele şi că, dacă cineva ar fi căutat ceasul prin tencuială şi ar fi dat peste el, casa s-ar fi dărâmat.”
― Arlequine
― Arlequine
“Athshe, which meant the Forest, and the World. So Earth, Terra, meant both the soil and the planet, two meanings and one. But to the Athsheans soil, ground, earth was not that to which the dead return and by which the living live: the substance of their world was not earth, but forest. Terran man was clay, red dust. Athshean man was branch and root. They did not carve figures of themselves in stone, only in wood.”
― The Word for World is Forest
― The Word for World is Forest
“But then again, there’s nothing intrinsically valuable about any kind of art. That’s not me complaining or making light. It’s one of the most wonderful aspects to art—the fact that people decide what is beautiful. We don’t get to decide what is food and what is not. (Yes, exceptions exist. Don’t be pedantic. When you pass those marbles, we’re all going to laugh.) But we absolutely get to decide what counts as art. If Yumi’s people wanted to declare that rock arrangements surpassed painting or sculpture as an artistic creation…well, I personally found it fascinating. The spirits agreed.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Darkness, though, grows like a cave formation. Slow drips from the uneasiness harden over the surface of a slick knob of pain. Over time, the darkness crusts in unpredictable layers, growing at such a pace that one doesn’t notice it has filled every cavern under the skin until movement becomes difficult or even impossible.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints
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