Great Stories

"The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... They are as familliar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, and who doesn't. And yet you want to know again."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things