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“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it.”

— Javier Marías

“I don't mean to overstate what is yet unknown, but part of me believes when the story of earth is told, all that will…

— Donald Miller

“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating…

— Jennifer Dubois

“We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it…

— Nenia Campbell

“A moment is never long enough to account for tragedy when you are in it.”

— Kevin Powers

“Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost.”

— Barry B. Powell

“But many of us fail to recognize that the best moments are the ones happening right now.”

— Jeff Goins

“We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us.”

— Colum McCann

“Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly…

— Melina Marchetta

“Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.”

— Iris Murdoch