A-cast-of-stones Quote by Patrick W. Carr

“Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it’s sometimes impossible to tell which is which.”

— Deb Caletti

“villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.”

— Patrick Ness

“But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

— Mitch Albom

“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”

— Lao Tzu

“There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Everyone knew the meaning of a thing didn't emerge until there'd been an ending and you could finally see how all the parts worked…

— Kathryn Davis

“It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the…

— Mitch Albom

“Already, what would become my tribe had begun to die off.”

— Jim Provenzano

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a…

— Murray Kempton

“But ends are also beginnings, you know. Every single story has a beginning at its end.”

— Elizabeth Orton Jones

“And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.”

— Anonymous

“For it seemed (though why it seemed so, no one knew) that everything began on that night. And, once begun, it could not be…

— Joyce Carol Oates