Friday Quote

"And when people got angry the ground would shake; and when people were muddled and uncertain about things the Moody Land got confused as well— the outlines of its buildings and lamp-posts and motor-cars got smudgy, like paintings whose colours had run, and at such times it could be difficult to make out where one thing ended and another began…
'Am I right?' Haroun asked his father. 'Is this the place the story was about?'
'The Moody Land was only a story, Haroun,' Rashid replied. 'Here, we're somewhere real.' When Haroun heard his father say only a story, he understood that the Shah of Blah was very depressed indeed, because only deep despair could have made him say such a terrible thing"(48).

- Haroun and the Sea of Stories