Ayten Qazan

“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not. True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change and change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions-- but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough.”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“We all have disabilities. What’s yours?”
― Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Out of My Mind