Sidra Ibad

“Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.”
― Jenny Han, Always and Forever, Lara Jean

“Nic begins writing hard, a word, I, two words, am, three words, sorry, writes them again, writes them again, writes them again, writes them again. He cannot, it seems, stop writing them. It is bullshit, a cheap attempt at - it is not bullshit, he is trying with excruciating desperation, which I can feel coming from him, to say something, to get out something that he cannot get out.
It's easy to forget that no matter how hard it is for us, it is harder for him.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“It may be true that suffering builds character, but it also damages people”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

“I think, How innocent we are of our mistakes and how responsible we are for them.”
― David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery