“Well, I don't know," said the Story Girl thoughtfully. "I think there are two kinds of true thing - true things that are, and true things that are not, but might be.”
“It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.”
“I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-”
“No, it can't," I say. "It's— it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't— I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't—”
“I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.”
“I think it's easier to know why people do bad things than to understand the true meaning of kind acts.”