Quotes by Karen Healey

Its the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight, He pointed at himself. Patupaiarehe look like monsters in some stories, but theyre beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed more in the beautiful version. And the ideal of beauty changes. If Id been born two hundred years ago, I bet I wouldnt look like this. The stories shaped me. They shape everyone, inside and out, but me more than most, because Im magic.

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves.