The Lost Girls

"...What if taking the journey itself were the highest act of faith? Traveling anywhere that was foreign inevitably meant that I'd have to rely on the kindness of strangers. To venture out into the world, I had to have faith in the goodness of people - and to be open to the lessons that every new person might bring."

"floating there, I held on to faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. you can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be."

"...That's something that couldn't have happened if we had stayed on our tried-and-true path in New York, if wed never decided that our dreams were bigger than our fears. Though we can't predict where the road ahead will lead, there's one thing we know for certain: uprooting our lives to take an unconventional detour was one of the most challenging things we ever did, but the experience taught us that getting lost isn't something to avoid, but to embrace. The only leaps of faith you'll ever regret are the ones you don't take."

From The Lost Girls, by J. Baggett, H. Corbett, A. Pressner