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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

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

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.”
― John Grisham

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

“There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
― C.S. Lewis