Jahanvi

“Who can ever understand someone else’s
love?”
― Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy

“I have only one thing to do and that's be the wave that I am and then sink back into the ocean.”
― Fiona Apple

“It seems to her that her education is more than just a way to escape poverty. It is a weapon of choice against stagnation in a kind of feminine condition that arouses her pity, the tendency to lose oneself in a man, which she has experienced, and of which she is ashamed. She feels no desire to marry or have children. Mothering and the life of the mind seem incompatible. In any case, she'd be sure to be a bad mother. Her ideal is the union libre in the poem by Andre Breton.”
― Annie Ernaux, The Years

“we would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays.”
― Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder