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“And I wonder if this is why the travelers' tales are so spectacular. If, behind every story about a felled tiger or supposed dragon, there is a real person, someone the storyteller wishes to forget in the only way she knows, which is to retell the story again and again until even she believes it was a dragon, and not a boy, who left her with so many scars.” — Natalie May

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And I wonder if this is why the travelers' tales are so spectacular. If, behind every story about a felled tiger or supposed dragon, there is a real person, someone the storyteller wishes to forget in the only way she knows, which is to retell the story again and again until even she believes it was a dragon, and not a boy, who left her with so many scars.
— Natalie May