“I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up.”

— Donald Miller, book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

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