Able Quote by Dawna Markova

“The easy danger of stories, their adhesive allure.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

“Like every company, every person has a dozen good stories that reveal that person. A talent in marketing is to discover your stories—some the…

— Harry Beckwith

You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.

— Flannery O'Connor

For both the offender and the victim, the pain is there, often unacknowledged and that is when it can cause harm through festering. When…

— Desmond Tutu

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

— Bruno Bettelheim

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting…

— James Connolly

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

— Anne Sexton

I always have a few ideas that are percolating, and then after I've finished a book and it's a year later, and things are…

— Colson Whitehead

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps…

— Langston Hughes

Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadside—are the Night's…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving.…

— Howard Martin