nara

“Her sister's eyes were staring at her, pleading, glossy, full of fear. Suchi saw, suddenly, what it must have cost her all these years to act the big sister, to be the rock for Suchi.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking

“Children made no sense. You could spend hours trying to convince your child that a red cup was just as good as a blue cup and they’d refuse to see the logic in that. And yet they could see the violent actions of an animal and immediately empathize with why the creature might have been provoked into them.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking

“Life was dynamic and vast, and she wondered if she'd ever be able to experience enough of it to feel satisfied, if she could die happy knowing she'd only gotten to rub up against the small corner of the world she lived in.”
― Karissa Chen, Homeseeking