Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

We do not last, she thinks. In the end, only the stories survive.

Seeking for salvation within covers with pages of printed letters

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

When your share your story with someone, it becomes their story too.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.