If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.
Brian AndreasThe first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same
Brian AndreasI was never good at hide and seek because I'd always make enough noise so my friends would be sure to find me. I don't have anyone to play those games with any more, but now and then I make enough noise just in case someone is still looking and hasn't found me yet.
Brian AndreasShe said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian AndreasWhen you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.
Brian AndreasWe went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.
Brian Andreas