Shaima Salim

“I want to be still and small, and not have to man up or act like everything's okay, but the thing about living in a house where someone is sick is, it's like they have a monopoly on it. If one person is always needing things , then no one else is really allowed to.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“Sometimes you do things that feel bad later just so you don't feel worse right now.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“The world is under no obligation to be sane or orderly.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows

“If we were having this conversation, that meant something was either wrong with me, or it was wrong with everybody else, and I had a basic enough understanding of probability to know that the odds did not rest with an entire planet.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, Places No One Knows