Some people believe if we repeat stories often enough they become real. They make us who we are. That can be scary.
Stella Nicholls
There are many great stories to tell.
Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.
People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.
Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
You see, most men, they'll tell a story straight through— it won't be complicated, but it won't be interesting either.
Edward Bloom in Big Fish
Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.
Beast / Hank McCoy in X-Men - Erste Entscheidung
I will escape for every innocent woman whose life was stolen.
Elodie, you join a long line of women who have helped to build this kingdom. It is this sacrifice we commemorate every generation. A tradition going back centuries. A legacy of honor and duty you now inherit.
I need you to listen to me now. I don't trust them. They may be royalty, but that doesn't make them good people.
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.
Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."
Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers
I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.
Lt. Jean Rasczak in Starship Troopers