Lifestories Quotes & Sayings

You said we should let go of the past, but I don't know if the past will let go of me. — Kate Kae Myers

One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly good at bringing literary strategies and form to experience (at least the good ones are). — Lidia Yuknavitch

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former. — L. Neil Smith

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours. — Lee Roberson

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance. — Karel Capek

I still make coffee for two. - Zak Nelson — Rachel Fershleiser

The problem, of course, is that at any given historical moment, prevailing views about the right changes to make in how we care for our bodies can be bullying and shaming. There is a lot of widespread guilt about diet, exercise, sex, and treatments. How insistent all the advice is! Have sex a lot, don't have any sex; eat heartily, eat with restraint; hold your body in stillness, move it and have it moved; bind your ample body tightly, wear soft clothes but have no fat. Not only are the various instructions different; they are directly at odds with each other. Yet, despite our historical track record on these matters, we are today generally confident that we know best- that science and other experts have now got it right, after a long history of nonsense. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

Take my hand, my love. On sinews of air we tread Aught but distance our guide With no tempo to our gait No endpoint drawn Neither plot nor plan — C.D. Reiss