Joan Zinderman

“At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people. You can't understand why they do what they do. You just have to accept a little mystery, Ben. People are mysterious, the world is mysterious. You can't know everything. You're not supposed to. This isn't a history book. It's just the world. It's a messy place.”
― William Landay, Mission Flats: A Novel

“Every father knows the disconcerting when you see your child as a weird, distorted double of yourself. It is as if for a moment your identities overlap. You see an idea, a conception of your boyish inner self...made real and flesh.
He is you restarted, rewound; at the same time he is as foreign and unknowable as any other person.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob