A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.
James FreyIn life we often look to others for simple, but difficult answers, despite the fact that we have those answers ourselves.
James FreyIt started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.
James FreyOne of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.
James FreyI hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.
James FreyThere are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.
James Frey