The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

by Terry Pratchett

“Well, I’ll tell you something,” she said. “If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.” “And what if your story doesn’t work?” “You keep changing it until you find one that does.”

A good plan isn’t one where someone wins, it’s where nobody thinks they’ve lost.

The thing about stories is that you have to pick the ones that last.