Krisha

“Humans are strange that way, full of contradictions. It's as if they need to hate and exclude as much as they need to love and embrace.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“think women are held to a different standard from men when it comes to celebrating their professional accomplishments. No matter what we do, we are never quite enough. Getting a promotion or a prize outside the home sometimes seems to mean that either that prize was easy to get or that we are letting our domestic duties slide.”
― Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future

“So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“People assume it’s a matter of personality, the difference between optimists and pessimists. But I believe it all comes down to an inability to forget. The greater your powers of retention, the slimmer your chances at optimism.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees