Vaamika

“Because that's the thing about change. It's so painfully normal. It's the most basic of all tragedies.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
― Najwa Zebian

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer! We might perhaps have most of Othello; and a good deal of Antony; but no Caesar, no Brutus, no Hamlet, no Lear, no Jaques--literature would be incredibly impoverished, as indeed literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
― Annette Messager