Cathrine's comments
(member since Dec 30, 2007)
Cathrine's comments from the Quotable Quotes group.
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"Is guilt the reason we make up stories?"
Where Three Roads Meet
by Salley Vickers.
What I love about fiction is how it encourages us to step outside the boundaries of our lives and to empathize with people whom we'd never otherwise meet. This ability to identify with others, to understand their situations and be moved by their experiences, is probably the most important thing fiction does for us. In this way, I believe reading literature humanizes us.
"And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to."
— Ali Smith
In 'Girl meets boy'.
" I'm lucky. I was born mythless. I grew up mythless.
No you didn't. Nobody grows up mythless, Robin said. It's what we do with the myths we grow up with that matters. "
From Girl meets boy by Ali Smith.
