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‘Love, like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.’

‘The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.’

“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

“Strangers,” the Blue Man said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.”

‘When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.’

Reminds me of ‘abuse can feel like love. Starving people will eat anything’.