“And what if I fail?""Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.”

“Someday you'll have to tell me the whole story behind you two.""Maybe. But first, I have to figure it out myself.”

“Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.”

“Marilla, what if I fail!''You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.”

“Ah, that 'if.' But it's of no use to despond. I can but do that, when I have tried everything and failed, and even then it won't serve me much.”

“It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.”