First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.

A wonder tale can be truer than true," I said. I had learned (...) that the deepest kind of truth can be found in the strangest and wildest of stories. One may not meet a fire-breathing dragon on the way to the well. One may not encounter an army of toothed snakes in the woodshed. That does not make the wisdom in those tales any less real.

She went on because there was no going back.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.