Shivi Bhalla

“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
― Alice Munro, Open Secrets

“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”
― Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein