Shreya

“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“...somewhere in his murkiest depths, he wasn't so much afraid of being left again as condemning someone else to second best.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

“That’s my depression talking. It’s not “me.” 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“To borrow Granny’s description, a bookstore is a place densely populated with tens of thousands of authors, dead or living, residing side by side. But books are quiet. They remain dead silent until somebody flips open a page. Only then do they spill out their stories, calmly and thoroughly, just enough at a time for me to handle.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond