Nurah

“It's like this," Nana says. "All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you’re green.”
― Tess Callahan, April & Oliver

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

After that I liked jazz music.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted?”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.”
― V.E. Schwab, Vengeful