Something Wild & Wonderful

Do they miss me? Does it count if the person they miss isn’t actually me? ​​​

Did you know that some scientists call the paths animals and humans make all over the world, that divert from the carefully planned and constructed roads of civilization, desire lines?

Why, instead of working at getting over the greatest loss he’d ever known, had Alexei simply collected more people to lose?

Alexei barely even liked talking about his faith to people he knew, outside of youth group. It was personal, not something he wanted to sell, like the guys who always stopped by their house to convince them to change cable providers.

how comforting it must be for them to know you are listening with your whole heart.

How Alanna and Thom both reject society’s expectations of them. Alanna’s refusal to live as someone she didn’t want to be. She was so…fearless.

That the world Alexei’s parents believed in wasn’t the real world at all. At least, it wasn’t the world that mattered. And there was so much good in the world that did.

They’re not. I’m sure they’re suffering, too. I know they loved me. I’m more trying to figure out…how I feel about a world that can make them believe what they believe. That what they did was the right thing. And where I fit now, in that world.