Elif

“I held on to the hope that one day I would grow up and have all the answers, just like my parents. As I look over at Arnold and then at Father Mike, I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“My mom loved me no matter what I did. [...] When I really screwed up, she'd tell me that she loved me but that she didn't like me very much at that moment. [...] I know that God or Fate or whatever is out there loves me, but I don't think he likes me very much.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“We all fight our own private wars.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe