Howard Cruz

“Experience can't be reduced to a 4x6 inch still," her mother says. "People stick their loves in cellophane prisons. They incarcerate images. Then they put these cemeteries on coffee tables. They're mockeries.”
― Kate Braverman, A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories

“Genuine as it might be," Moshe said, "too much sympathy can start to seem like pity, which only makes the grief more depressing.”
― Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner

“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

“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