Julia Elrod

“There are moments when we resort to senseless formulations and advance absurd claims to hide straightforward feelings.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“It is an act of violence when an adult yells at a child, all adults know that deep down, because all adults were once little. Yet we still do it. Time after time, we fail at being human beings.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“I don’t know how it will be in the years to come. There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The ultimate expression of love is nagging, we don't nag anyone the way we nag the people we love.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends