"The Great Stories are the one that you heard and want to hear again. The ones that you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet though you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t.In the Great stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)