“Stories tell us how we should live.”

“That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.”

“We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.”

“Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.”

“A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”

“There's a story in all of us. All we need to do is decide how to tell it" -Nicci Sefton”