“What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”
“Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”
“But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don't always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don't always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.”
“I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?”
“if you want to convince children of the power of books, don’t tell them stories are good. Tell them a good story.”