Making the world a place of possibility
“She was always doing that [Bird’s mother], telling him stories. Prying open cracks for magic to seep in, making the world a place of possibility. After she left, he had stopped believing all those fantasies. Wispy, false dreams that disintegrated in the morning’s light. Now it occurs to him that, perhaps, there might be truth in them after all.”
This is a small quote from Celeste Ng’s most recent novel: Our Missing Hearts. It’s the story of Noah (known as Bird), who lives with his father and has been estranged from his mother in a dystopian future.
I love this quote on the importance and magic of storytelling. How it’s important that stories don’t stop… That they keep sowing the seeds of what could be made possible, from what can be imagined, and what can be worked towards.
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