"If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)"

-- Heidi W. Durrow

#Stories Quotes #Sides Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.”
“By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!”
“It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.”
“We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness.”
“Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies”

Source : Christina Dodd (2009). “Storm of Shadows: The Chosen Ones”, p.184, Penguin
“Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.”

Source : Elaine Pagels (2004). “The Gnostic Gospels”, p.17, Random House
“Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.”
“One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”

Source : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House

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