Joann Pan

“Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“God approaches us in the disguise of other people.”
― Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye