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"We are all the heroes of our own stories."
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
The best stories don't come from good vs. evil but from good vs. good.
"The best way to forget something is to remember it."
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."
"All true stories are about the meeting of opposites."
"A good book is an event in my life."
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"Identity is a story we tell ourselves, and sometimes we have to rewrite it."
"The stories we tell shape who we are."
"I couldn’t be in a play because plays are not real life and they are full of people doing things that don’t make sense."
"Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them."
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Being a detective is like being a scientist. You have to notice things other people don’t notice.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.
There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.