Andrea Ashima > Andrea's Quotes

“Forgiveness comes much later if at all
Sometimes after a lifetime of negotiation
With your demons
Words you could have said
Or left unsaid
Bruises you could have hidden
With a little make-up
And things would have been just fine
Until the next time”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House

“Sprawled on the shore of forever
We are time travelers
Talking to each other across
Dusks and dawns of tomorrows
Toasting our marshmellows
In the bonfires of yesterdays
Sipping amnesia we pour into
Each others cups to heal
Wounds on our feet that keep
Changing shapes of our journeys”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House

“We nurture the highest in each other
without depleting granary of our offering
we pour ourselves out to make room
for the best is yet to come.”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House

“Nothing ever dies

it only changes

into something else

like old songs

that blow gently

into new ears

to find new meanings”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House

“Shame is the best weapon after fear
in the arsenal of patriarchy
ammo of choice for its sari draped agents
to keep young women in line lest they
sprout a tongue or mind of their own”
― Nalini Priyadarshni

“Nothing sends patriarchy scuttling
under covers of propriety
faster than rambunctious peals of laughter
emanating from rubicund lips”
― Nalini Priyadarshni

“I will never know, neither will you, the life we didn't live
Filled with beauty and love and joyous perfection but not ours
We embrace our being when we accept the path to our becoming”
― Nalini Priyadarshni, Doppelganger in My House