Tina

“We live most of our lives in parentheses (thoughts we don't say, plans we don't finish).”
― Aura Biru

“My body is a question mark, curled into the space where he used to lie, as if punctuation could somehow bind the unexplainable. Somewhere between last night's dream and this morning's intrusive awakening, I've become a paradox—awake but not living, aware but not willing to face what the light will insist on showing me.”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone

“There's a kind of alchemy at work in first meetings—how they etch themselves into our narratives, often far more vividly than we realise in the moment. What screams serendipity on the outside is essentially—mainly—a brew of hope, curiosity, and fear. With just a touch of self-delusion.

We see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear, and often miss the subtle cues pointing to what's really there. It's why we can walk away from a first kiss feeling like we've found something significant, life-changing, earth-shattering, genre-defining, only to find later that we were merely projecting our own desires onto a blank, lonely page. But, by the gods of sanity, I couldn't have cared less.”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone

“I've realised the hardest person to forgive is the me who didn't know better. She was doing her best, but sometimes I still flinch when I hear her voice.”
― Aura Biru, We Are Everyone