Satvik

“Adults always think they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that’s pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and in dark alleys alike.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“To be from countries such as ours... is to continually feel obliged to explain them.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends

“The person we fall in love with, we hardly ever call by their name. Because it’s somehow just so obvious that it’s you I’m talking to, that it’s you I’m always thinking of. Who else?”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends

“And where did you go, I wanted to ask, but stopped myself. I stopped myself because I believed his story was less important than mine, and that this needed to be expressed somehow, even if in silence.”
― Hisham Matar, My Friends