Kevin D.

“Now,” Joan said, “we’re going to practice some visualization. If you can create something in your mind, you can create it in your physical world as well. I want you to picture yourself on this day a year from now. Picture where you are. Where you want to be. Picture what you’re wearing. All the way to your socks and shoes. What are you doing? Who are you with? What do you smell? What do you feel like? Every detail. That’s you.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“She took her journal out and read her belief statement out loud, though not loud enough for Jasper to hear in his room, where he was preparing for school. She finished, repeating several times, “Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.”
― Boo Walker, Red Mountain

“By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, “Honey, I don’t know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry,” and gives him a lilac-scented embrace. Nothing happened to me, he wants to say to her. Nothing happened to me. I’m just a homosexual at a Broadway show.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less