Nurah

“But I did have a father,” he said. “My mother was my father—she had to be both parents because you abandoned me! She taught me to be smart, compassionate, strong, brave, loyal, and proud without any help from you! And if that’s not what a real man is, then I have no interest in becoming one!”
― Chris Colfer, A Tale of Sorcery...

“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

“Everything is change, he said, and everything is connected. Also everything returns, but what returns is not what went away.”
― Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective