Aadya

“Someone once said to me birth was the most ordinary and extraordinary thing you’ll ever experience, simultaneously, and death is the same. The fact of yours sits there, implacably, being so banal and so mind-blowingly strange at the same time.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

“Life is the minutes you want minus one.”
― V. E. Schwab

“Instead of sleeping that night I revised my end of the conversation in my head over and over, a lifelong pastime I always rationalized as productive since the lessons could apply to future interactions, though that never seemed to happen.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts

“But the best revenge is to thrive.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface