Quote by Helen Simonson Download Open image ““It was an old story so rubbed with retelling that the edges were blurry.”” — Helen Simonson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I’ve been sifting through the layers of dusty books and faded papers. They tell a story I used to know; one that happened so… — Kate Wolf Copy Share Image
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“It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“But it’s hard to say where experience ends and imagination begins. The story is by no means a true story. But the feelings in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“We were like matching bookends, almost touching but with volumes between us and stories, so many stories.” — Ilsa J. Bick Copy Share Image
“A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth.” — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
“A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.” — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“I held up my glass and stared through it, where things looked as distorted as they really were.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“The better you tell an old story, the more you are talking about right now.” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks—but… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“There is often an inverse correlation between genius and personal hygiene.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends,… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
My neighbor Alice Pierce is fond of singing folk music to her garden plants. Thinks it makes them grow or something. The Major had… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“do you really know what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?" "Is there any other kind?” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“So he dreams himself the life he cannot have?” “Exactly. But we, who can do anything, we refuse to live our dreams on the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“he realized he had inspired a sense of trust and indebtedness that would make it entirely impossible for an honorable man to attempt to… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ..."You are mistaken,… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“It took him a moment to realize that they had been painted to look like fingernails, and he sighed over the extraordinary range of… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“She looked at him and he read in her eyes a disappointment that he should have stooped to the dead relative excuse. Yet he… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
“He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter—the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
