“Storytelling, in general, has a moral use. To be in the throes of a story, to have one’s emotions provoked by another’s story, is not quite ethics, but it’s kind of the shadowlife of ethics. We train children by telling them stories. We try to get them to feel their way into other lives, and that itself is something. If we had no capacity for that there would be no hope. It would just be all rules that you would follow for fear of being punished if you didn’t. And that doesn’t amount to becoming a moral agent.” – Rebecca Goldstein, The Seed Salon