You don’t approve?” Joan asked, picking up on Delphine’s tone. “Their stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.”“What do you mean?” said Bea.“Certainly sometimes a good little character would find a lamp, and would not be so corrupted by the strangely endless possibilities of three wishes that they ended up causing more harm than they ever imagined. Those stories fostered belief, they were retold, certainly; but they were few and far between. Most of the genie’s tales showed the characters exactly who they really were, not when they were despised and degraded, not when they’d reached the gutter and been given licence to look at the stars. No, the genies showed them who they were when they were invincible. The characters, they try to forget stories like that. F.D. Lee
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When Joan says "their stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors" she is talking about the fact that genies like to share their stories and stories of their own glory with others and do not like to share stories of the misery and suffering they come across. The genies like to share their stories because it gives hope and inspiration to others.

Source: The Fairys Tale

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