story people Quotes

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on or work is a bad idea too.

- Dennis Vickers, Mikawadizi Storms

It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story of one person. It was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.

- Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

- Matt Chandler

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.