David Dunlap

“...the study of literature is, among other things, an opportunity to see the truth about oneself through the eyes of another person and the fact that great works from the past are resources for discovery, growth, and change.”
― Sean Keilen, Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

“Children are the strongest antidote to grief, not because of their unconditional love or their joy or because they take pain away, nothing like that, nothing like an inspirational quote embroidered on a pillow for your sofa. Children are the antidote because of their unrelenting needs, their continuous, voracious, narcissistic, selfish insistence on living, their unceasing demands that those needs, no matter how trivial, be met immediately and urgently.”
― Ilona Bannister, Five

“She [Emma] pretends to herself it is instant anger her mother provokes, and she ignores the hurt beneath the fury, the pain only a mother can inflict that never goes away.”
― Ilona Bannister, Five

“...history is shaped -- or erased -- to fit the narrative its tellers want or need to share.

[LADY EVELYN HERBERT]”
― Marie Benedict, Daughter of Egypt