There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~Maya Angelou
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.
~Charles Dickens
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
~George Eliot
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
~C. S. Lewis
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
~Orson Welles
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~Isak Dinesen
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order.
~Jean-Luc Godard
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
~John Updike
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
~James M. Barrie
Now you know the rest of the story.
~Paul Harvey
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
~Rumi
Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage.
~C.S. Lewis
My friend invented Cliff’s Notes. When I asked him how he got such a great idea, he said, “Well, first I… I just… well, to make a long story short…”
~Steven Wright
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
~Muriel Rukeyser, poet
Great Stories happen to those who can tell them.
~Ira Glass