“Because the novelist and the artist are operating at the same level of consciousness as myth makers, they naturally resort to the same themes.”

“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.”

“like mythology, an important novel is transformative. If we allow it to do so, it can change us forever.”

A Short History of Myth – Karen Armstrong