1. All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
The Thirteenth Tale
2. I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
The Thirteenth Tale
3. ... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
4. They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding.
Once Upon a River
