Reva Bhola

“It's not always so easy, it turns out, to identify your core personal projects. And it can be especially tough for introverts, who have spent so much of their lives conforming to extroverted norms that by the time they choose a career, or a calling, it feels perfectly normal to ignore their own preferences. They may be uncomfortable in law school or nursing school or in the marketing department, but no more so than they were back in middle school or summer camp.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Mary dashed the rain from her eyes with a frozen hand. Was that a knife buried in the man’s chest with the blood seeping up around it? Doesn’t that mean he’s alive? Although with the blade at that angle, it can’t be for long. Colors swam in the water coating Mary’s vision. She rubbed her face, and with every shuttering breath, even before she could see his features, she knew her son, George, the son she had never met, was dead.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

“How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn’t in love with him?”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.”
― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream