“Summer has come with the loveliness of a mother Heat, not warmth, now pours onto my face, aging me, taking me closer to death. Let it. I am here to live my story, to love my story. I will not fail to savor any gift out of a desire for self-preservation. Self-preservation is not a great virtue in this story.” SelfStoriesFacesMotherDesireVirtueFailingSummerAgingHeatWarmthPreservationSelf PreservationLoveliness Author:N.D. Wilson
“Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.” StoriesFleshImpulseCatechism Author:N.D. Wilson
“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.” WorldChildrenStoriesUseBodyEyeUsedLaughingSunImagineThis WorldShadowToolsFinalsYour BodyStaringMeant To BeElsewhereChaptersReplacedPullingTailsRabbitsThornsResentTagHawksDiscardedCobras Author:N.D. Wilson
“In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.” KnowsEndsCharacterStoriesMovingNightMorningAudienceSunBloodSceneSpringShadowBiggerWinterDawnGreekRelatedEvery NightHereafterDank Author:N.D. Wilson
“Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.” WellsHas BeensStoriesGivenBornRolesLike YouSceneShadowFinalsNarrativeDislikeComplaints Book:Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World Source: Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
“Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.” StoriesLife IsDiesMouthsMakers Book:Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent Source: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
