“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”
“When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.”
“Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.”
“Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.”
“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”
“I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me ...”