Shaila

“But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It’s not about value; it’s about knowledge.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

“But which is the true self? the Odyssey asks, and how many selves might a man have? As I learned the year my father took my Odyssey course and we retraced the journeys of its hero, the answers can be surprising.”
― Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

“That’s why I love you, Rainy March. Because when I’m with you, I’m real.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch

“Have you met authors, Duke? They aren’t criminal masterminds. Authors are anemic agoraphobes who sit in dark rooms and hallucinate. They’re more like moths than people.”
― Meg Shaffer, The Book Witch