The Storyteller Quotes

“To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Mornings were good. Cold mornings, rainy ones. It didn't matter. They were new beginnings.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“I avoid writing until I can't avoid it anymore. Until writing comes knocking at my door like a friend I've neglected.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Stories help me feel complete.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Because whether inspiration comes from an actual place or not doesn't matter if you don't choose to do something with it. And if you do choose to do something with it, the stories you create don't matter unless they make ripples in the world.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“But when you're a kid, it's different. You lose something and then there's this hole inside of you and you want to fill that hole, but you don't have the experience or wisdom to do it. So you ask for answers. From the air, from the clouds, from the stars, from anyone who might listen. And when voices finally respond and promise that there's a place where you can get what you want, where your wishes can come true, then you go. You go to that magical place and you stay and you create and you try to heal. You fill that hole. Which can be brave. Which is important. But while you're there, you realize that what you want and what you need are two different things. And that's when you're done with the place, and you leave for good. But leaving for good means you forget the place even existed at all.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“You are not a coward, and there is nothing wrong with starting over.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“You tend to tell yourself that feeling something is always better than feeling nothing.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“She didn't need to be someone else. She needed to use her power to make the world a better place.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be.

Simple. Obvious. But true.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Let's face it, our memories aren't perfect. We don't get anything exactly right.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“You do smart things and stupid things in the thick of a moment.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Routine can drop you so deep in a hole that you can't dig out, and you can't live in a hole your entire life.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Besides, static isn't so bad to listen to. Beats listening to your thoughts when your thoughts are a scramble of stories and you're having trouble telling what's real and what's a dream and what's a coincidence and what's basically what.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Sometimes it's about more than your own happiness. Sometimes you have to think of other people.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“I am happy with my life how it is for once. And I don't ever want to forget that. That's all that matters to me.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“My muse, whatever it is, is leading me to write stories.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“When you believe something that you don't have solid proof of, that's faith, right? But faith is hard to do alone. You need others to believe the same things you do, or else you're gonna go a little nutty, aren't you.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“We are a sum of our choices. We are not our single choices.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III

“Sometimes confusion feels like pain. Sometimes it feels like falling.”
― Aaron Starmer, The Storyteller: The Riverman Trilogy, Book III