story

Screw chocolate. A good steak is where it__ at.

Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers.

See the truth. Feel the truth. Be the truth.

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story.

Laughter lights up the darkness.

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

Just do it. Now.

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.

I advise all people that have had an interaction with the police to obtain a copy of the police report, as you may find a very different story in there to what actually occurred.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed.

It__ easy to think that if we had a different house, different car, different job, different relationship, different city, everything would be different; that we would feel different then.The problem is, you are the main character in the story that is your life. No matter how much you alter the setting of that story, you can__ escape from yourself. There are many factors which contribute to your experience on this planet, but ultimately, you are the one creating your experience here. In order to get to the life you are here to live, you must begin by becoming the person you are here to become.

Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: "There's beauty that can be found in everything." But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say.

For any marginalized group to change the story that society tells about them takes courage and perseverance.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.