“I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more or less tragic or triumphant than any other.”
“For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)”
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
“Then it was you who wounded Aravis?" "It was I." "But what for?" "Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.”
“The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”
“I prefer to die of thirst in my own planet than to be a character more in this sad story.”