You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved.
Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.
So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.
[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.
I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.