“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”
“It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.”
“To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.”
“He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.”
“The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.”
“In the written words of the book thief herself, the journey continued like everything had happened.”