“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
- Kazuo Ishiguro, in his 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech.
Category: words about words
“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in…”
“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can’t pretend it isn’t there.”
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life.