“Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.”

“Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to. ”

“Our stories are all we have. The only thing that can save us is to learn each other's stories. From beginning to end....For every life we know, we are expanded.”

“And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.”

“ A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.”

“Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. / The name of the story will be time, / But you must not speak its name. / Tell me a story of deep delight.”

“People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.”