“Thank God there are places
with sounds that make me cry
from beauty,
not from pain.”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love -”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“there's
this golden moment
when the sun
licks through the gauze
fluttering at my window
warming my eyes to open
this golden moment
when I'm not yet awake enough
to remember
that there are things
I would rather
forget”
Source: Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy
“Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“Be yourself.
You're
better than a bully
any day.”
Source: Bully on the Bus
“I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;
watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;
count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take over
and I am only a little afraid
of the night.”
Source: The Sound of Letting Go
“Faith isn't for the faint of heart.
Both courage and naïveté are required.
To grasp its art,
you must look the other way
when all the omens seem to say
you will nog get what you desire,
so, though it may be a cliché
I put my faith in fire.”
Source: Voices
“That you were
already inside me and two lives
cost the body its soul. That I couldn’t afford
to let you go.”
Source: Between His Teeth, Clenched
“Our Prophet ﷺ showed KINDNESS while he was treated with hostility,
He showed LOVE and COMPASSION to everyone, even to his enemy.
Sent by the MOST MERCIFUL to the world as a MERCY,
He is the BEST of creation, the most noble man,
Described by his wife as a WALKING QUR’AN.
Follow his SUNNAH as best as you can...”
Source: Getting to Know Muhammad: a Rhyming Verse Novel, About the Life and Struggles of the Prophet Muhammad, for Teenagers and Young Adults.
“The wind didn’t remember his name. It didn’t need to. It remembered his breathing.”
Source: The Boxmaker’s Apprentice