Every love story is a tragedy if you wait long enough.
All of our stories begin in darkness with our eyes closed. And all our stories end that way, too, as we utter our last words before slipping back into darkness and silence.
A storyteller does not concern themselves with the truth. Stories are truer than the truth. These are not literal constructs so much as imaginative recreations.
You know I’m gonna get the story one way or another. Wouldn’t you rather be in control of the conversation?[to Willis]
You have a past. You have a story, just waiting to be claimed.[to Soji]
When the Great Library burned, the first 10,000 years of stories were reduced to ash. But those stories never really perished, they became a new story. The story of the fire itself. Of man’s urge to take a thing of beauty and strike the match.
What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? Stories. There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it.
We’re all writing our own stories now. Go write yours.[to Loki]
There are no truths, just stories.[to Claudia Tiedemann 1986][Es gibt keine Wahrheit, nur Geschichten.]
The stories are best left to the guests.
The media don’t care if it’s lies, as long as there’s a good story.
Stories don’t disappear, they change. They become different stories.
