"By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are. So I will go on. So I will myself to go on."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Believe Quotes #Stories Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.”
“It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.'”
“I'm real good at troubleshooting; When there's trouble...I start shooting.”
“The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side”
“My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.”
“Whoever want my spot can play me one-on-one for it.”
“In my case, I made the decision early on that I was going to be very open about the book and claim upfront that each of the stories was based on my life experience. I think my reasoning goes back to what I was saying earlier, about wanting the book to be "more than a book," that I wanted the reader to feel a little unsettled about what they were reading: there's a core of factual truth here.”
“Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.”

Source : Edna Buchanan (2014). “The Britt Montero Series (Omnibus Edition)”, p.1443, Diversion Books

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