Adeeba Shark

“We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Our judgments, like our watches, none
go just alike, yet each believes his own”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“We were
a mob
a gang
ghetto
a pack of wolves
animals
thugs
hoodlums
men

They were
kids
having fun
home
loved
supported
protected
full of potential
boys”
― Ibi Zoboi, Punching the Air