Amrita Korwar

“The only reason I have lived so long is that I let go of my past. Shut the door on grief on regret on remorse. If I let them in, just one self-indulgent crack, whap, the door will fling open gales of pain ripping through my heart blinding my eyes with shame breaking cups and bottles knocking down jars shattering windows stumbling bloody on spilled sugar and broken glass terrified gagging until with a final shudder and sob I shut the heavy door. Pick up the pieces one more time.”
― Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on...that’s who we really are.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix