Leela Srinivasan

“I think I'll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.”
― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.”
― Wendell Berry

“As far as I'm concerned, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain.”
― Alice Oseman, Solitaire

“I lie down and let life leave its footprints on me.”
― Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither