Eliah

“He didn't care about the poems, one way or another. He merely cut away the blackened gangrenous bits of his soul and sold them.”
― Alice Winn

“Adults break their own spirits all the time just to do what someone else said is the right thing, yes, but who is anyone to determine who someone else is?”
― Eloghosa Osunde, Vagabonds!

“When the brain tumour was diagnosed, I thought, The unvierse isn't done with us yet. So this is what life is really like: a series of terrible events? I can't believe I was so in the dark for so long. The body is capable of betrayal at any given moment. But then I would ask myself: Did someone promise me that it was going to be all good? And the answer would be, No, no one did. So, then, where did I get this silly notion from that life was supposed to be all good and well?”
― Katy Wix, Delicacy

“He is breathless for the life he's entering into and I hope that he will not know pain or betrayal or disappointment, but of course he will, because he's alive and that's the price we pay”
― John Boyne, Water