Kartiki

“If somebody manipulated your thoughts and feelings, would you still be the same person as before?”
― Mizuki Tsujimura

“You threw me to the crows, but it turns out I prefer them to you.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“That was the day I learned how dangerous a color can be. That a boy could be knocked off that shade and made to reckon his trespass. Even if color is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn, above all else, the law of gravity.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“So I am no longer alone. I’ve been hoping something like this will happen for such a long time. Though I know it never will.”
― Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror