A Natural Born Storyteller

　　"Did I tell you I dumped one of the Katherines?"

　　"You what? No."

　　"I did, apparently. Katherine the Third. I just completely misremembered it. I mean, I always assumed that all the things I did remember were true."

　　"Huh."

　　"What?"

　　"Well, but it's not as good a story if you dumped her. That's how I remember things, anyway. I remember stories. I connect the dots and then out of that comes a story. And the dots that don't fit into the story just slide away, maybe. Like when you spot a constellation. You look up and you don't see all the stars. All the stars just look like the big fugging random mess that they are. But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky. Hassan told me once you think like that, too —that you see connections everywhere — so you're a natural born storyteller, it turns out.'

　　'I never thought about it like that. I—huh. It makes sense.'

　　"So tell me the story."

　　"What? The whole thing?"

　　"Yeah. Romance, adventure, morals, everything."

An Abundance of Katherines, P202
John Green
ISBN 978-0-14-241070-7