Alex

“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“I have been visited by every shade of grief and know that it doesn't come in black or white”
― Michael Robotham, Say You're Sorry

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Pat Conroy, Beach Music