Maxwell F. Cooper

“I always hear people talk about 'dysfunctional families.' It annoys me, because it makes you think that somewhere there's this magical family where everyone gets along, and no one ever screams things they don't mean, and there's never a time when sharp objects should be hidden. Well, I'm sorry, but that family doesn't exist. And if you find some neighbors that seem to be the grinning model of 'function,' trust me - that's the family that will get arrested for smuggling arms in their SUV between soccer games.

The best you can really hope for is a family where everyone's problems, big and small, work together. Kind of like an orchestra where every instrument is out of tune, in exactly the same way, so you don't really notice.”
― Neal Shusterman, Antsy Does Time

“To accept the world as boring or accept oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.”
― NisiOisiN, Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle

“You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind