Dana Adam Shapiro > Quotes

“It's amazing that someone who knows so much about the human body can know so little about people. I think it's time we laid all our stars out on the table.”
― Dana Adam Shapiro, The Every Boy

“When he was little, she'd stay late in his room, drawing pictures of him as he slept. She had fat pads filled with closeup sketches of his growing muscles, hands, and teeth, roughly rendered in black ink and charcoal. She wasn't trained or ambitious when it came to art; she was simply fascinated by her creation—not the drawings, the person. "This is mine," she'd say, checking Henry's pulse, looking into his nostrils, "This is me." She once counted his eyelashes with a magnifying glass and drew each one to scale.”
― Dana Adam Shapiro, The Every Boy: An Addictive Literary Mystery About Parallel Love Stories, Family Loss, and a Father's Discovery