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Leah Stewart Quotes

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

Leah Stewart
Travel, Blessing, Kind
Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.52, Crown

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Leah Stewart
Stories, Happy Endings, Ends
Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.126, Crown

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Leah Stewart
Father, People, Stories

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

Leah Stewart
Stories, Way, Reaching
Leah Stewart (2005). “The Myth of You and Me: A Novel”, p.192, Crown

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

Leah Stewart
Ambition, People, Midwest
Leah Stewart (2013). “The History of Us: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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