“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator”
“This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.”
“The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”
“Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.”
“Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.”
“The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.”