Shivani Chauhan

“Things went somehow so good that were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“A face as stiff as a boulder, stiff with boredom—
that’s the face of an adult.
Adults don’t think about the ocean
even when they watch it.
Their minds are full of other things.
It’s very depressing to think
that someday I, too, will be an adult”
― Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me

“I missed my older sister, or people I used
to be friends with, or people I hadn't seen in a long time. I cannot stand
mornings because it seems I am always bleakly reminded of long-gone
times, and people I used to know, and their presences feel eerily close, like
the scent of pickled radish that you just can't get rid of.”
― Osamu Dazai

“Take any path and hope
for the best. At least it will lead you out of
the shadows.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Beauty of All My Days: A Memoir [Hardcover] RUSKIN BOND