Ady Bourbonnais

“It strikes me that the wayward son had rather selfish motivations. He said to himself, “How many of my father’s paid servants have more food than they want, and here am I dying of hunger! I will leave this place and go to my father.” He didn’t return because of a renewed love for his father. No, he returned simply to survive. He had discovered that the way he had chosen was leading him to death. Returning to his father was a necessity for staying alive. He realized that he had sinned, but this realization came about because sin had brought him close to death. I am moved by the fact that the father didn’t require any higher motivation. His love was so total and unconditional that he simply welcomed his son home.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Show Me the Way: Daily Lenten Readings

“Words are like birds,” says Mr. Bradbury. “When you publish books”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it is left behind.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky