“what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.” DoeStoriesTurnsSecretStorytellingCarrieBottlesTidesBlankStorytellerAdequateFervent Book:Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.” HeartWholeFactsStoriesHomeBitsPiecesChildhoodEventsWhole LifeChristmasCarrieRepetitionValidityNursery Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.” HeartStoriesPainFashionCarrieRebirth Author:Sue Monk Kidd