The Lost Story

by Meg Shaffer

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.

In other words, a hero on a quest for the Holy Grail isn’t looking for the Holy Grail. The hero is trying to find himself, and the only way he can find his true self is by going on a journey, being tried and tested until he knows if he is a hero in name only or a hero in truth. And that’s why the world has Holy Grails—not because the world needs Holy Grails but because the world needs heroes.

“Mom, I’m scared.” “I know, Emmielou. But scared is a feeling, not an excuse.”

Ask any question in an infinite universe, and the answer is yes. Always yes.”

Joy is quieter than people think it is. Especially the joy of getting back something you thought was lost forever.”

“About time you got handsome,” she said to Jeremy. “Gingers are late bloomers,” he admitted.