"Haroun and the Sea of Stories" Quotes
A young boy named Haroun goes on a fantastical adventure to restore the poisoned Sea of Stories and save storytelling from the clutches of darkness.
fantasy | 224 pages | Published in 2012
Quotes
To give the devil its due, the sea of stories is not all good. The truth is not all good. Many stories are evil.
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
What's the use of stories that aren't even true?
There's no point in believing in impossible things if you need to rely on the possible to get you out of a fix.
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important.
A person who's given his or her name to you has given you the means of calling him or her up. And that's a great privilege.
Never believe anything until it's been officially denied.
The world, someone once said, is a place where the extraordinary is always possible, and the unexpected always likely.
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
Just because something's not true doesn't mean you can't believe in it. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.
