Meredith Henderson: Cleo Bellows

Quotes 

• Cleo Bellows : I hate being different. It always feels like people are staring at me.

  Jennie : Welcome to the real world. Everyone feels like that, Cleo. I mean, why do you think Erica Goldblume dyed her hair pink and got the nose rings? She wanted to make sure she knew what they were staring at.

• Alex Bellows : I owe you one.

  Cleo Bellows : You owe me ten, but who's counting?

• Shaha : There's a story coming for you. Death. Birth. Loss... and prosperity.

  Cleo Bellows : What do you want?

  Shaha : Your father is dying and your brother's by his side. Listen up! Your story begins! Go inside!

• Mali : I always work hard with our father for our clothes and our food. Well, now they're mine.

  Cleo Bellows : What're you trying prove? You got what you wanted.

  Mali : And you have nothing.

  Cleo Bellows : I have his blessing.

  Mali : Good luck eating that.

• Cleo Bellows : Hey, you know this place. Are there any edible roots or berries around here?

  Shaha : I'm not your guardian angel, just your storyteller.

  Cleo Bellows : Even if it's a story about me starving to death?

  Shaha : If that's the story.

• Shaha : I told you I could be as frightening at times and harmless at others, just like anyone. We all live under different disguises. Who do you see when you look in the mirror?

  Cleo Bellows : Well... I see Radhi.

  Shaha : Most people do not see who they are. They see who they wish to be or who they fear they are becoming.

• Shaha : The evil spirit of a man is a man. It does not take a demon to make a man do harm.

  Cleo Bellows : Why is he so angry at me?

  Shaha : He sees what he does not have.

  Cleo Bellows : But he got what he asked for.

  Shaha : That is not always happiness. Mali got the property, but he also got a wife who spends it as fast as he earns it. It is never enough.

• Shaha : "Cooling of the tongs is not the end of the forging."

  Cleo Bellows : You have a million of those, don't you? "Cooling of the tongs" - what does THAT mean?

  Shaha : When one story ends, where does the next one begin?

• Cleo Bellows : What's the end of THIS story?

  Shaha : I'm not telling. Let it come. Hurry-hurry gets you nowhere.

• Shaha : My people's stories ARE my people. The stories can not change.

  Cleo Bellows : I hope you're right. D'you know what happens if the stories DO change, or get lost?

  Shaha : Never happen. When the snake sheds his skin, the old snake - the same snake - emerges to live again. When the story ends, the same story begins again.

  Cleo Bellows : That's the way it should be.

  Shaha : Without my people's stories, they would lose their way.