“This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.”

“Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.”

“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.”

“Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.”

“mistakes do not matter but what does is how you learn from them.”

“i dont do drugs just weed”

“Lives in stories have direction and meaning. Even stupid, meaningless lives, like Lenny's in "Of Mice and Men," Acquire through their places in a story at least the dignity and meaning of being Stupid, Meaningless Lives, the consolation of being exemplars of something. In real life you do not get even that.”