Julia Elrod

“All the great religious traditions of the world say, Love thy neighbor as thyself. My answer is, I'm sorry, I can't, but I'm gonna keep on trying.”
― Paul Farmer

“As a child, looking up at the contrails, she used to think that God had dragged his fingernails across the sky.”
― Madeline Cash, Lost Lambs

“The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they've happened.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House