Whatever happens Quote by Rachel DeWoskin

“Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.”

— Nicola Yoon

“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.”

— Mary Marchese

“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

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

— Luanne Rice

“This story is about how we undid those complications and got ourselves the rest of our happy ever after anyway.”

— Heidi Cullinan

“Stories are vehicles for conveying who we are, what is important, and what ought to be done..”

— David Vermette

“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“circumstances determine our lives, but we shape our lives by what we make of our circumstances.”

— Sir John Wheeler-Bennet

“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much…

— Patrick Ness

“think sometimes it takes a life-changing event to make us really see the way we’re living based on the choices we’ve made.”

— Jana Deleon

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change…

— Sherman Alexie