The Castaway and the Witch Quotes

“Books are fiction. They give you the most ideal version, whether that is pain or love, or even family. Art aims to smooth the edges in order to give you a compelling story. Real life is like a heap of discarded clothes, and you search amid them matching pieces for a narrative that will hold your sanity.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou, The Castaway and the Witch

“It was years later, when she wrote the experience down, that she clarified them. Such is the nature of memory, always creeping onto the edge of fiction.”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou, The Castaway and the Witch

“Books are fiction. They give you the most ideal version, whether that is pain or love, or even family. Art aims to smooth the edges in order to give you a compelling story. Real life is like a heap of discarded clothes, and you search amid them matching pieces for a narrative that will hold your sanity,”
― Ioanna Papadopoulou, The Castaway and the Witch