Grace

“Trauma was refusing to adhere to any schedule, didn’t seem to align itself with time. Some days it was distant as a star and other days it could wholly engulf me.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“What you carry is what defines you. It can be the burden of feeding your family, the responsibility of caring for patients, the good that you feel you must do for others, or the sins that you will not release. Whatever it is, we all carry something, every day. And for all your time with us—as you so defiantly stated, Chika—my job was carrying you. My job was—and is—carrying your brothers and sisters in the orphanage. My job, it turns out, after so many years without them, is carrying children. It is the most wonderful weight to bear.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Hopeless change be contagious, but hope can be too. And there is no medicine to match it.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Don’t give in to your fears,” said the alchemist, in a strangely gentle voice. “If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream