“Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.”
“Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.”
“إنها مجنونة، متخبطة، وهي التي تكره المرأة المتخبطة، تكرر انه لم يعد يعني لها شيئا ثم تقودها أشواقها التي تنكرها إليه.”
“There were thousands of households throughout that city and there was something happening in all of them. There was some kind of story in each, but self-contained. No one else knew. No one else cared.”
“تتوقف دموعها وتستمر الأفكار كتيار قوي مندفع يسبب الألم لكل خلية من خلايا دماغها ويدمر فيها أي رغبة بالابتسام.”
“Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called softskins whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren had hired to go north to find Rose, must have spread the story, because for many years afterward, there were tales of a race of trolls living on top of the world. Only Rose and her white bear know the whole truth of it.”