Do you believe in stories?

The words that frame the images, that build, one sliding into another, another, from the first to the next to the last in an on-rolling wave of sound and truth and beauty?

Do you believe in stories?

Have they told you things you heard with your soul as well as your mind? Have you heard them? The whisper behind the words. Have you heard it?

Do you believe in stories?

Come tell a few to me. I will tell you parts of mine. Our own stories. When you tell a part to someone else, carried on words, your story intertwines with theirs.

Heaven and earth's greatest Teacher taught in stories.

I believe in stories.

"The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland." - Montgomery

"When I wrote my first books, my imagination did all the talking. But my writing has matured and my soul has something to say." - Martin

"Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Wallace

"Don't let fatigue make a coward out of you." - Prefontaine

"Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and cannot be put into words." - Hugo

"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
"Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." - Chesterton

"Nowdays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Wilde

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African proverb

"Worry is a misuse of your imagination." - I'm afraid I don't know

"The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself." - Agustine

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."
"If you do one good deed, your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one."
"I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun. Not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else." - Lewis

"Perfection as a sacrifice / for imperfection paid the price, / in payment for sin's debt sufficed / to Heaven paved the way." - Umbarger

"I felt it shelter to speak to you." - Dickinson