Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

It's the deception and when you think you are dealing with someone you think you can trust.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.