“ A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that makes you feel at home. It's a language that you don't command, bu… Adi Alsaid
“ The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or… Adi Alsaid
“ The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden… Adi Alsaid
“ I'm a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because they… Adi Alsaid
“ As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay. Adi Alsaid
“ No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like. Adi Alsaid
“ She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer. Adi Alsaid
“ Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less not.… Adi Alsaid
“ I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable. Adi Alsaid
“ I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again. Adi Alsaid
“ All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three. Adi Alsaid
“ People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you. Adi Alsaid
“ How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken tha… Adi Alsaid
“ Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive. Adi Alsaid
“ No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world. Adi Alsaid
“ Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isn’t given the chance to live because I don’t have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially if… Adi Alsaid
“ I hate technology. It provides so many different channels of loneliness. Every time you check your email and don’t see a new message, you know that, even though people have the ability to contact you… Adi Alsaid
