Howard Cruz

“If they embark on a journey to turn their lives around, homies become accustomed to speaking of paths. "I used to walk the bad path,"one might say, "but now I'm on the good path."it's a natural thing to say, but I don't think there are two paths. There's only the good journey. We are never on any other path but that one. There are obstacles along the way of the good journey, of course:ruts and gulches and seemingly insurmountable impasses requiring logs laid across the ravine over which we gingerly walk. At times we get stuck in mud or even quicksand on this path, but it is one journey and it is good inasmuch as in beckons us toward the God who calls us who only wants us to be drawn forward.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“I buy a book. Surrounded by so many, it would seem rude not to. It's a story written in 1958. I've read it before, but it brings a curious sense of comfort to slip it inside my bag. As I leave the shop, and the world of fiction behind, it feels as if I'm taking a little of the fantasy with me. A talisman made of paper and words to help ward off reality.”
― Alice Feeney, I Know Who You Are

“I'm fairly certain our gardens are rat-free."
"I don't know. Rats are pretty sneaky. Sometimes they even make it into elected positions. Sometimes if you let them get out of control they even become mayor.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“These days are among the hardest we will ever live through. The wind is blowing, but because we are together in this, we have hope. Most days. Maybe more than ever before in my lifetime, my friends and I are aware of our brokenness and the deep crazy, the desperation for light, hope, food, and medicine for poor. What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day. one of us remembers and reminds the rest of us that when it is really dark you can see the stars.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope