And that’s how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and die–take your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back it’s grown big enough to grab you up in its teeth and shake you. That’s how it is. All our lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce. Mark Lawrence
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This quote is the story of a person who had heard the tale of a man who had lost his shoe, seemingly forever. The man spent his days searching for the shoe, believing that it was being watched over by an all-seeing eye. When he found the shoe, he took it back to his home and looked at it in wonder. He realized that in searching for his lost shoe he had passed the day to night (and night to day) and in that time it had grown in size and complexity.

He returned to search for his lost shoe again and again, but in doing so he passed into another life that was larger than life itself. The tale of the missing shoe was not simply a story; it was a tale about life itself.

Source: Prince Of Fools

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