anusmita

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

“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

“When something bad is actually happening, it's easy to underreact, because a part of you is wired to assume it isn't real. When you stop underreacting, the horror is unique because it is, unfortunately, endless.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“They, mother and son, are a zipper, slowly separating as the years rush by.”
― Gillian McAllister, Wrong Place Wrong Time