The Very Little Princess: Zoey's Story - Plot & Excerpts
Surely not because she is afraid of such a tiny thing. Not because she has no mind of her own, either. There is a reason, to be sure, and it comes out of something I haven’t yet told you about Zoey. Actually, there are many things I haven’t told you about Zoey, about her mother … about everybody in this story. Lives are complicated things, you see, and the storyteller’s task, as much as any other, is to make them appear simple and easy to understand. In order to do that, I choose. I choose what to tell you, when to tell it, and what to leave out. It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include. For instance, I could have told you that Zoey’s favorite color isn’t really pink, it’s purple. She used to like pink when she was a little girl, but now she prefers purple. And her mother has never noticed that she has grown beyond pink to purple. That’s just the way her mother is. She loves every inch of Zoey, but her mind is very … well, perhaps the best word is full.
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