...each one's different. They have similar elements, though. All stories do, no matter what form they take. Something was, and then something changed. Change is what story is, after all.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

I love you but I will not sit here and wait for this story to change. I am going to make it change.

Would you hide something in a story for me?" the mouselike man asked the sculptor. "There are those who seek what I must conceal and would turn the universe inside out to find it.

He has been reading (or rereading) a great many children's books as well, because the stories seem more story-like, though he is midly concerned this might be a symptom of an impending quarter-life crisis.

A game or a book that has meaning to me might be boring to you, or vice versa. Stories are personal, you relate or you don’t.

He tells her about moving from place to place to place and never feeling like he ever belonged in any of them, how wherever he was he would almost always rather be someplace else, preferably somewhere fictional.

Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there.""In the stars?" Bailey asks."No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.