The Stories We Tell Quotes

“I know this about imagination: It needs a place to go. If I don't work at my cards and images and letterpress, if I don't touch the cut metal and carved wood fonts and imagine different patterns as I place letters next to others in a new way, my ideas will turn inward.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“Endings. They come over and over, and with each one there is also a new beginning.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“I know what it feels like not to be part of the family, to be separate, and I’m sure I can’t bear it again.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“There’s a difference in what seems to matter and what really matters, what loss can be tolerated and what cannot be. I hold what matters, what I cannot lose.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“No one tells you this—that you can love your child so much that the hurt she feels becomes your own. That the pain rummaging through her soul unpacks your own hidden past and together the aches entwine. That there is a kind of eviscerated pain that makes you feel utterly helpless because you can’t take the hurt away from her and claim it for yourself.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“I’ve avoided eye contact with anger for most of my life. When I feel it coming, I run or hide into something more appropriate.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“Yes, stay ahead of the pain. I wish there was a way in the real world to do the very same damn thing.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“adolescence, by its very definition, is “a disturbance.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“TEN GOOD IDEAS CARD LINE 1. Be Kind 2. Tell Good Stories 3. Always Say Good-bye 4. Search for the True 5. Help Others 6. Create 7. Be Patient 8. Find Adventure 9. Forgive 10. Love”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“Some things have to be believed to be seen. —Many Waters, by Madeleine L’Engle”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell

“What is this?”
― Patti Callahan Henry, The Stories We Tell