Books Quote by Patricia Finney

“people like stories because they are good, not because they are true.”

— James Paul Gee

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good…

— Daniel Kahneman

“You can get so wrapped up in your own story, you forget other people have theirs, and sometimes those stories aren’t nice ones.”

— Simon James Green

“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.”

— J.D. Salinger

“We all pretended it would get better, but the unspoken truth is always louder than the stories we tell.”

— Jamie McGuire

“The best story in life, is your own. The only story that you truly lived and died for.”

— Kay

“After all, every story have both good and bad in it, and life can be like that too. I guess it's what we take…

— Melissa Hill

“People don't handle reality very well and prefer the story we make of our lives instead.”

— Laura Gilfillan

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the takes of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I hated being lied to. I hated even more believing those lies until the truth decided to come for me. Turned out, I was…

— Pepper Winters

“No one else has the same story as you, and that's a good thing.”

— Lizzie Velásquez