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1 " I don't have any big adventures." " But of course you have big adventures," Papa said. You have adventures of all sorts, all the time." " Not like Radish in the Book of Tales," Geraldine said, scuffing a toe along the ground. " I could never be like Radish." " No, you don't have adventures exactly like Radish," Papa said. " But that's because you're not Radish and you must have your own adventures. All creatures must." " Happy ones?" Geraldine asked." In the end, yes. But they won't all seem that way at first. They'll have unexpected twists and turns. You must let them play out to the end, like a story in the Book of Tales. Follow God, speak to him and listen to him, and all tales will be beautiful in their time. "
2 " There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one. "
― Cormac McCarthy , The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
3 " Life is the greatest author of us all, for it writes the very best and very worst of all tales & stories... "
― Andrè Michael Pietroschek
