Boy Quote by Said Sayrafiezadeh
“Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.”
![“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not…” quote by Said Sayrafiezadeh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/said-sayrafiezadeh-16091_audience_ending-is-partly-drawn-from-a-desire-to_597129.jpg)
