Kat

“To tell a story is always to translate the raw material into a specific shape, to select out of the boundless potential facts those that seem salient.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“Let's drop the war.'
'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“But it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Resentment is a storytelling passion,' says the philosopher Charles Griswold in his book Forgiveness. I know well how compelling those stories are, how they grant immortality to an old injury. The teller goes in circles like a camel harnessed to a rotary water pump, diligently extracting misery, reviving feeling with each retelling. Feelings are kept alive that would fade away without narrative, or are invented by narratives that may have little to do with what once transpired and even less to do with the present moment.”
― Rebecca Solnit