History Quote by Owen Sheers

“There are many lives and many years, and relatively few moments when those individual histories touch each other with real recognition.”

— Teju Cole

“Our histories never unfold in isolation. We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories without knowing the other stories. And…

— Angela Y. Davis

“I think this is something we all can relate to: experiences that may start out as good ideas until suddenly, they become ordeals, no…

— Tania Aebi

“If you look at your life as a chain of events, each responsible for the next and caused by the last, where does any…

— Zack Whedon

“The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections…

— Ilhan Omar

“I felt as though the past and the future, cause and effect, patterns and connections, were a huge complicated artifice, and it was only…

— Ann Brashares

“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Differing perspectives, needs, and desires sometimes have a way of spawning completely different interpretations of the same events.”

— Michael Makai

“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all…

— Jonathan Evison

“There is a reason history has, at its heart, the narrative of one's life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It seemed sometimes that life was nothing more than the accumulation of emotional baggage-memories,regrets and lost opportunities.”

— Dennis E. Taylor