Amelia Gannon

“Wait—your last name is Song and your family makes… songs?”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall

“We can talk and talk and talk about what the pain is like, but we can never manage to convey what it is.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Together we began having meetings for the Indians, telling them in their own language the most wonderful story in the world, that of the Son of God who had come to earth and paid the price of man’s sin with his own blood. The recognition of God’s great love dawned slowly in the Indian mind. But one day we rejoiced as Atanasio said to Jim, “I am very old. Perhaps too old to understand well. But it seems to me your words are true. I will die in your words.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Through Gates of Splendor

“Grady was there too. And Alden and Della. And Fitz, Dex, Biana, Tam, and Linh. And Sandor, Grizel, Woltzer, Lovise, and Cadoc.”
― Shannon Messenger, Nightfall