Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
Top 10 Best Quotes
“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”
“Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”
“Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.”
“What's the use of stories that aren't even true?”
“Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?”
“It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.”
“Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.”
“Any story worth its salt can handle a little shaking up.”
“A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.”
“Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.”
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Book Keywords:
creation, fairytales, stories, endings, allusion, imagination, girls, trickery
