Raghav Arora

“I Have Decided
I have decided to find myself a home in the mountains, somewhere high up where one learns to live peacefully in the cold and the silence. It’s said that in such a place certain revelations may be discovered. That what the spirit reaches for may be eventually felt, if not exactly understood. Slowly, no doubt. I’m not talking about a vacation. Of course at the same time I mean to stay exactly where I am. Are you following me?”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“And though I knew the complexity of our fate couldn’t be reduced to a single sheet of paper, she nonetheless had a point: Evil expressed itself through administrative language.”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl

“I told her what I think is true—that love survives death. They won’t be okay, of course, but they will go on, and the love you poured into them will go on. That’s what I should’ve said.

But what I actually said, while crying, was, “How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“The eros that drew strings between us, sometimes so taut they produced a sweet and secret sound. But the friction was frail - it was never meant to make real music, just to suggest its existence, like a violin encased in glass at a museum, so old and brittle it would fall apart if you tried to play it”
― Aria Aber, Good Girl