My friend Cody loves books and stories.
“People can be transformed by a story,” Cody says.
I agree. I have been transformed by the stories I have read and heard, fiction and nonfiction, about other people. Most important, I know the power of the stories I tell myself about myself and my history—and about what is happening to me today.
Cody quotes Patrick Rothfuss from The Name of the Wind.
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story,” Rothfuss writes.
–Joy