A.D. Elliott

“Pure ruthlessness was no substitute for careful planning.”
― C.J. Box, Wolf Pack

“Anderson’s words hang in the air the whole way home.
Kate, I like him. I think I really, really like him.
I swear, every friend bone in my body is screaming for me to suck the tension out of this situation. It would be incredibly easy. I could do it in one sentence.
“Andy,” I say softly.
Andy, this Matt thing—you should go for it.
I could tell him I’m not interested in Matt. I could offer to be Andy’s wingwoman. I mean, I can’t make Matt Olsson like boys if he doesn’t, but at least it could stop feeling like a competition. Everything could just be normal. Like a normal crush and a normal lovesick Andy and a normal best friend Kate.
The only problem is, I don’t feel normal. Not about Matt.
“I think I like him, too,” I say. I barely recognize my own voice. It’s soft but certain. Like maybe my voice knew how I felt before my brain did. “I really like him.”
― Becky Albertalli

“For these reasons or reasons very like them he was killed
who, of all the Hellenes in my time, least deserved to come
to so miserable an end, since the whole of his life had been devoted
to the study and the practice of virtue.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.”
—Winnie the Pooh”
― Disney Book Group, Christopher Robin: The Little Book of Poohisms: With help from Piglet, Eeyore, Rabbit, Owl, and Tigger, too!