Live The Vibrant Life
Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d give each a black eye.
Friendship and courage between a young white boy and an elderly black man remind us that friendship is not only available to us if we are open to it, but that we need each other to survive.
I happen to believe every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment, slantwise in the light of dusk.
A man’s character is like his house. If he tears boards off his house and burns them to keep himself warm and comfortable, his house soon becomes a ruin. If he tells lies to be able to do the things he shouldn’t do but wants to, his character will soon become a ruin. A man with a ruined character is a shame on the face of the earth.
Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.
But then a better thought occurred, and this was the one I carried away with me that day: If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?
“…Books can become worn and faded but never grow old. Miguel de Cervantes teaches that everyone, regardless of nobility or peasantry, is important. It’s a message of hope, and what is life without hope? Do you agree, Angelina?”
Angelina thought of all she wanted to accomplish in life. “Hope is everything,” she said.
This is a book that asks the big questions of life. It uses cancer as the medium to bring about the masterpiece. The characters are fleshed out and they become real to you. You find yourself dealing with the heartaches and challenges they face alongside them in the story.