Shirley Goderich

“Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection,
What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?”
― Sherman Alexie, Face

“Give sustenance, Allah.
Give sustenance to me.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984