Asha

“Hadn’t every story she’d been told since she was a child carried the same message? You could traverse deserts, climb mountains, sail oceans and beat giants, so long as you had a crumb of hope in your pocket.”
― Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There’s too much wonder, that’s all. It’s everywhere.”
― Stephen King, Later

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief