Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important that we all pretend -- make believe -- it is. One way or another books tell the stories of their readers. But telling our lives is not the same as shaping them, whittling them away. Suddenly Jill had lost control. Her books had taken over and were in charge. Laurie Frankel
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When Jill loses control of her life, her books become the characters of her story, and she is the narrator. She is the author of her own story, but her real life has taken a backseat to the fictionalized version of it that was created by her books.

Source: The Atlas Of Love

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