“Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.”
Siri Hustvedt
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
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“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.”
Siri Hustvedt
The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
“And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.”
Erica Lorraine Scheidt
Uses for Boys
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and tell ourselves a story? This is how it happened. This is who I am.”
Frederick Weisel
“We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.”
Sarah McCoy
The Baker's Daughter
“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.”
Jim Crace
Harvest