Notable Narratives: Can you come up with five meaningful quotes on narratives that nobody has read?

By Diane Maye

“It is now time to turn to the story itself, one which is perhaps more than just a grim phantom of the past.”

Tolstoy, Nikolai. Victims of Yalta, New York: Pegasus, 2012, p. 24.

“I will not shout, but I do want my message to be heard.”

King Abdullah II of Jordan. Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril. New York: Viking, 2011, p. xxi.

“Although she lacked the narrative strain needed to set all she had to say in the context of her story, her voice ought to be heard and appreciated…”

Howell, Georgina. Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, London: MacMillian, 2006, p. xix.

“…the parallel history from families on the home front rolled freely from fresh recollection…a desert veteran would shake his head, wondering if it had all really happened — to be assured by his wife that it surely did.”

Taylor, Thomas, Lightning in the Storm, New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004, p. 19

“…I have worked in the archives, studied the literature, and put together the findings of modern scholarship to show the picture that is formed when the pieces of the puzzle are assembled.”

Fromkin, David. A Peace to End all Peace. New York: Owl Books, 1989, p. 15.

Dr. Diane Maye is an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Narrative and Conflict Resolution

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