“He looked into the water and saw that it was made up of a thousand and one different currents, each one a different colour, weaving in and out of one another like a liquid tapestry of breathtaking complexity; and Iff explained that these were the Streams of Story”

“the Ocean of the Sea of Stories was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves”

“I find ‘story’ as difficult to define as a human or a tree or a rainbow. Is this because it is alive?”

Haroun and the Sea of Stories – Salman Rushdie