Ahab's Return Quotes

“In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived books lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.”
― Jeffrey Ford, Ahab's Return: A Haunting Moby-Dick Retelling – Captain Ahab Hunts Ishmael in Gothic 1800s New York

“Americans so dearly love to be fooled. —Charles Baudelaire”
― Jeffrey Ford, Ahab's Return, or, The Last Voyage