This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes "History isn't a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human." It means that your own story isn't the only one and that other's stories matter just as much. In literature it can be easy to forget that the side characters in stories should also have lives outside the plot. So when authors make their characters question how to value their own stories vs. other's stories I enjoy the book a lot more.