Jason

“In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees

“I only wished the ledger of my own life could be so easily set aright, with a series of fat black lines drawn neatly through my sins and errors.”
― Tom Perrotta, Election

“I entreated her, and she did not fail to show excellent good sense, such as you would not expect to meet in a young person, for the young are generally given to thoughtlessness.”
― Homer, The Odyssey