“The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat”
“How do you know where a story begins?”
“But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.”
“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.”
“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”
“I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.”