Bhoomika

“Nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one's thoughts be diverted by anything, by meals, by a fly that settles on one's cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That's why life is difficult to live.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The white people's world seeks to destroy community. Once they destroy the community, then it is easy to destroy the individual.”
― Nemonte Nenquimo, We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People

“Sometimes the women pitied me, saying that at least they'd known real life, and I was very jealous of them, but they died, as I am about to die, and what does having lived mean once you are no longer alive?”
― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men

“The most beautiful part of your body is wherever your mother's shadow falls.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds