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1 " The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. "
― Brittainy C. Cherry , Behind the Bars (Music Street, #1)
2 " You’re the music in a mute world, and my heart beats because you’re here. "
3 " Sometimes people don’t need words, Elliott. Sometimes they just need the space to feel what they need to feel, with someone present as a reminder that they’re not alone. "
4 " You can’t force someone to love you, to be proud of you, to care. The only thing you’re in control of is your own soul and discovering what makes your heart beat. "
5 " Just give it a minute. Feel what you need to feel. You can’t rush feelings. You just gotta let yourself ride the wave of them. "
6 " Find the music when life makes no sense. "
7 " One can’t truly heal if they pretend the cracks don’t exist. "
8 " Every person had lyrics in their life that were too painful to sing. "
9 " Life was hard sometimes, but maybe God gave us music as his apology. "
10 " Whenever I thought of home, I didn’t think of a place; I thought of people, the ones who shaped us into the people we were meant to become, the ones who loved us with our scars and told us those scars were beautiful, the ones who allowed us to make mistakes and still loved us fully. "
11 " The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.” -Josephine Baker "
12 " Music was my therapy, and after a few songs, I always felt stronger. It was crazy how jazz fixed the broken pieces of me every time, how the sounds always took me back to a safe place in my soul. "
13 " Closure was simply one person finding their voice, their own strength, and learning to let go by themselves. "
14 " If I had to choose between people or music, music would always win. "
15 " Technically I didn’t see him at first—I felt him, felt his music crawl along my skin. The chords and bars of his saxophone sent chills down my spine. It sounded magical, the way the notes danced through the air, so hauntingly beautiful. "
16 " Maybe a home isn’t where you begin, but where you end up. "
17 " Sometimes they just need the space to feel what they need to feel, with someone present as a reminder that they’re not alone. "
18 " Sometimes people don’t need words, "
19 " He didn't need words. He just needed the space to feel what he needed to feel, with me present that he wasn't alone. "
20 " I’m pretty sure judging someone based on what they have is just as awful as judging someone for what they don’t have. "