anusmita

“This life needed only one of us to live. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now.
My life means yours is impossible.
Only in the gap between darkness and light, only in that blue-tinged breach, do we manage to make out each other’s faces.”
― Han Kang, The White Book

“But isn’t humor a different kind of repression?”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time

“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
― Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems

“Jupiter. I promise I'll always know where you are.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Orbiting Jupiter