“The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.”

“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”

“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”

“Not all events are stories.”

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story that leads to the outcome they want.”

“I'd been pleased to find there was an alternative to the other stuff, which all reminded me of advertisements containing people with perfect teeth, heroic expressions and offspring that looked like they were on their way to Hitler youth rallies.”

“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”