“Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.”

“I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself.”

“They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.”

“Khattam-Shud,' he Said slowly 'is the arch-enemy of all stories, even of language itself. He is the prince of silence and the foe of speech. And because everything ends, because dreams ens, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. 'It is finished,' we tell one another, 'it's over, Khattam-Shud; the end.”

“But I don't believe in reincarnation!" he protested.SQUEAK.And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you.”

“If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending...But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone.You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.”