Joel

“This is the paradox of the ocean.”
― Alan W. Watts, Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

“Abby wanted to say “Up yours” or “I didn’t want to sit with you anyways,” but to her profound disappointment she found herself looking down at the grass, embarrassed, desperate to be allowed to sit at the picnic table.”
― Grady Hendrix, My Best Friend's Exorcism

“This unstitched loneliness keeps bleeding out of my hands. I was always ready to be someone else. To be remembered like a fabricated war history. Reunion with myself remains a personal tragedy. But to be a poet without being tragic would have been quite a shame.”
― Noor Unnahar, New Names for Lost Things

“But reading the Bible, you learn that it’s not about trying to be something you’re not—it’s about learning to see the movement and motion and possibilities right in the midst of whatever world you find yourself in. We’re not living in the first century or the ancient Near East—we’re here, now. At this time. In this world.”
― Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything