This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories. – Terry Tempest Williams

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. – Jean De La Bruyere

The story—from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace—is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind for the purpose of understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. – Ursula K. Le Guin