Bailey

“This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“My questioning was my attentive spirit,
and their reply, their beauty.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner