Aaliyah Best Quotes

None of us survive childhood unscathed. When Aaliyah looks back on these days, yes, she might remember these painful moments, but I believe she’ll remember all the days you showed up for her, that you kept loving her, that you kept on persevering for her—for yourself. The best way you knew how. If you believe you’re passing down your shortcomings and burdens to her, doesn’t that mean she’s inheriting the best parts of you too? She’ll have to decide what to let go of, what to keep.

Even though I suspected it was for the best, I felt bad about manipulating my father, and in that moment I realized something; I did not believe in God. As quickly as the revelation came, it dawned on me that I had never believed. I’d always questioned the claims of religion, though the day’s events had finally given me my reason. No loving God, I reckoned, would allow a recounting of his miracles to render some human beings more worthy of home than others.