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> [“It's 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 they're beautiful in a lot. I guess people believed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/it-s-the-shape-of-the-stories-that-matters-the-way-belief-forms/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

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## More by Karen Healey

> [“No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them. But he'd sung…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/no-matter-how-much-money-he-d-been-offered-or-how-many-glittering/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

> [“There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/there-wasn-t-any-food-or-heat-but-we-had-light-and-places-to-sit-and/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

> [“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/translation-can-never-do-more-than-the-approximate-so-we-shall-at/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

> [“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at himself. 'Patupaiarehe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/it-s-the-shape-of-the-stories-that-matters-the-way-belief-forms/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

> [“You knew what I was," he said, taking his hair back from his face, eyes wild with the will to make me believe. "You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/you-knew-what-i-was-he-said-taking-his-hair-back-from-his-face-eyes/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

> [“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-healey/stories-change-us-they-change-the-world-people-are-stories-of/)

[Karen Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-healey/)

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