"When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion..."

Jun 12, 2024 13:00











“When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.”

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, page 359 of the movie-tie-in edition
page 359 of autograph edition
page 359 of 2010 edition

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