Experience Quote by Elfriede Jelinek

“She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the…

— Wendell Berry

“The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread of her…

— Masha Hamilton

“...stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen.”

— Adam Silvera

“I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future.”

— S.A. Rolls

“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only one alive…

— Anne Rice

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“Heroes may not live long in years, but they live forever in the stories.”

— Amit Kalantri

“We meet her in her previous life, if only briefly, so that we're grounded in her character before any major changes to her life…

— Rob Parnell

“sometimes in life, short-lived STORIES can have life-lasting effects and MEMORIES.”

— Mouloud Benzadi