Raisa

“True war isn’t philosophical.”
“All war is philosophical. That’s why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it’s nothing more than murder.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“He needs me to give voice to my feelings, because he's not a mind reader and it's not okay that I soak up what he gives without offering myself in return. I can't let him think he's alone, not for one moment.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“And perhaps that in itself was the great secret---not just for legacy, but also for life. You could carry a story inside you and hold it up to the light when you needed it the most. You could peer through it, like a frame, and see how it changed your view when you looked out onto the world.”
― Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes

“So instead of giving in to despair I chose active melancholy, in so far as I was capable of activity, in other words I chose the kind of melancholy that hopes, that strives and that seeks, in preference to the melancholy that despairs numbly and in distress.”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh