“A boy at the beginning of a story has no way of knowing that the story has begun.”
- Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea.
Category: stories are wild things
“Today I must go on with the story, or the story must go on with me. Carrying me inside it, along the…”
“Today I must go on with the story, or the story must go on with me. Carrying me inside it, along the track it must travel, straight to the end, weeping like a train, and deaf and single-eyed and locked tight shut, although I hurl myself against the walls of it, and scream and cry, and beg God himself to let me out.”
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace.
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace.
glumshoe: I think I’m always chasing that particular high you only get from certain rare stories -…
I think I’m always chasing that particular high you only get from certain rare stories - the ones that resonate with you on a strange personal level, like an implacable aroma that reminds you of something that was once very dear to you but has somehow been forgotten. Those stories that rewire your brain just a little, just for a while. Not every great story has this effect - I have enjoyed many excellent books and movies that did not change me.
It’s just that now and then, if you’re very lucky, you’ll come across a story that feels like home, or a like limb you didn’t even know you had or how you got by all these years without using it. These stories haunt you and become part of your personal canon.