Telling Quotes (page 71)

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• real
• falsely
• come

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real Mary Oliver

• true
• masterpieces
• everything

A true masterpiece does not tell everything. Albert Camus

• writing
• job
• yourself

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Stephen King

• loneliness
• smile
• love

Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories. That smile us on to tell delightful stories. John Keats

• home
• shine
• star

When we reached home your cheeks were like roses, and your eyes were shining like stars, and you tried to tell Mummy so much in one breath that I thought you would burst. Katherine Mansfield

• enough
• love
• expectation

If a young women once thinks herself handsome, she never doubts the truth of any man that tells her he is in love with her; for if she believes herself charming charming enough to captive him, 'tis natural to expect the effects of it. Daniel Defoe

• love
• pain
• fall

People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk

• mother
• perfect
• your life

One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you. Cheryl Strayed

• hurt
• ways
• either

My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit. Chuck Palahniuk

• understanding
• lost
• mind

Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*. Stephen King

• tell
• stories
• others

We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply... Neil Gaiman

• sad
• time
• carrie

Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place. Alexander Dumas

• dark
• journey
• away

We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away. Emily Dickinson

• feeling
• feeling alone
• all alone

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me. As she tells me. Why do I feel so all alone? Stephen King

• baby
• manly
• chew

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. Mark Twain