Along for the ride Quote by James Lee Burke

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time…

— Pat Conroy

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our…

— Helen Dunmore

With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of our children…

— Rachel House

“A circular plot structure, often seen in adventure novels and quest fantasies, is a narrative devise involving setting, character, and theme. Typically a protagonist…

— Carl M. Tomlinson

The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into…

— Louise Erdrich

“In Western culture, we are also profoundly shaped by the ethics of individualism. We learn early on to follow our own stories wherever they…

— C. Christopher Smith

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

— Dominic Cummings

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

— Sylvia Boorstein

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

— Derrick Jensen

The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux,…

— Alfred Adler

We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is…

— Ramona Koval