The Teller of Small Fortunes

by Julie Leong

“How much wealth makes a fortune depends on how much one already has, for it will always be more than that,”

“Like a mountain pool, fed from a waterfall and flowing away again in many forms—some over rock, some through forest, some sinking deep into land. Water leaves this pool but also returns to it. And in this way, all people come from the same pool, and will return to it in time.”

“All cats are slightly magical, don’t you know? It’s why they’re so smug all the time.

Well, there was something to be said for having mules as friends. They didn’t argue or flirt with you.

There’s no such thing as greater good—there’s just good, and the more of it we can do, the better.”