Chris Priestley quotes:

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.

But she was no guardian angel. She was not trying to help me at all. She had been trying to claim me as she had claimed the lives of my fellow passengers.She was the thing that remained forever unseen in my visions of her tales. She lurked near the bodies of those whose whose lives were so cruelly taken. She was there always, waiting.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They may be startling at the time, but it passes. One gets caught up in the narrative, but the dangers aren't real, are they? Things happen in any way the storyteller chooses. It is all just made up.