Tashan Mehta > Quotes

“But I am the right person, just not the same person. It is what happens when you wait for someone to come back to you or you make a map to go somewhere you once loved: they change. Nothing is ever as you left it.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“It is a unique pact we make with those we love: when I cannot be wise or brave, be those things for me.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“That which seems empty is only invisible, it sings. What appears story-less is only unknown.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“It is what happens when you wait for someone to come back to you or you make a map to go somewhere you once loved: they change. Nothing is ever as you left it.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“Put enough of the world’s memories together and it becomes the imagination.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“There are no words for the joy I felt upon finding Myung. We chose our names together. I picked Laleh because I liked the calm of the syllables, their weight and rolling depth. She decided on Myung; she liked the way the “y” sounded, like you are an instrument struck and still ringing. We chose our names because of each other, for what use is a name if there is no one to say it?”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“It is funny how the lessons you teach your children to protect them end up becoming a wall that separates you.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi

“In a world where stories fade or become something else—a fairy tale, a myth, a sea phrase—remembering is a sacred act, requiring the largest of marvels.”
― Tashan Mehta, Mad Sisters of Esi