“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again." http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/810135-the-god-of-small-things
This quote is basically saying that a good story is a story that never gets old. To put it in my own interpretation, a good story is like watching your favorite movie! You know every single detail that is going to happen but you still love it. You never get tired of watching it.
I chose this quote because it's a great example of why the book should not be banned. I watched an interview on YouTube between the author and a man where she explained how she wanted everyone to know the ending as soon as you started reading. She didn't want to write a book that kept you on your toes the whole time wondering what's going to happen. She wanted to spoil it at the beginning. In this quote it shows how she did that. I find that very interesting how she did that.
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