Udai

“Is it better to have the one big hurt of your father not being around and not all those little hurts that come when he disappoints you? Or is it better to have a piece of a father, hurts and all?”
― Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

“I hear things. Not sounds, but thick slabs of silence being dragged through the dark.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“There: see? Done with the facts already. The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn't about them. This is about whatever is cut from the frame of narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, untender bits.”
― Molly Brodak, Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir