Up: [[Story]] > [!Orbit] Martin Shaw > First thing we gotta do is trail the stories not trap them. If you trap a story, you’ve put it in a little allegorical cage where you pretend you know what it means. The moment you think you know what the story means from beginning to end, it’s lost its nutrition, it’s lost its protein, it’s lost its danger. > [!Orbit] [[Clarissa Pinkola Estes]] in *Women who Run with the Wolves* > Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story…shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women. (p. 20) > [!Orbit] Niall Williams in *This is Happiness* > …Ganga (narrator’s grandfather) loved a story. He believed that human beings were inside a story that had no ending because its teller had started it without conceiving of one, and that after ten thousand tales was no nearer to finding the resolution of the last page. Story was the stuff of life, and to realize you were inside one allowed you to sometimes surrender to the plot, to bear a little easier the griefs and sufferings and to enjoy more fully the twists that came along the way. (p. 50)