Jamie Paramski

“...I just don't think we could ever get our heads around the concept of learning to love a stranger". But you already do, the Indians replied. You didn't choose your siblings, and yet you learned to love them. Your parents shoved you in a room and said, "Get along". And you did. You found the good in each other. You discovered that the more respect, caring, and altruism you added to the relationship, the stronger it grew.”
― Franz Wisner, How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom

“...Accept the differences, because they are superficial..Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference". Yes. I knew that sounded simple, but I realized how seldom it's said. We divide ourselves in every waking moment. Blond or brunette. Blue states or red. Then we define ourselves by the divides. We do the same with love.”
― Franz Wisner, How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom

“Concentrate on the goodness in the other, rather than the difference.”
― Franz Wisner, How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom

“I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or, more accurately, my quivering bank balance, accessed through foreign ATMs—would give out, and I’d fall to the ground.”
― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky