“Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.”
“Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to.”
“Papa always said you make your own luck.And maybe you do.”
“What I can't understand is why the silly things you say makes so much sense.""I'll tell you why," said Papa Dima. "It's because the best idea is the idea you least expect. And the unexpected always seems silly at first.”
“The first one is always the hardest," he said."The first?""The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”
“She always played his song because whenever she saw him, it was like moving into a warm pocket of air.”