Sneha

“I had sixteen years at The Hill. I learned to pray there and I learned to give up on prayers there. I learned how to keep my mouth shut, to not let a single thing show on my face though my insides churned and burned. I learned that I was nothing. I learned how to take a slap and to never forget that it was no one’s fault but mine that I’d needed it.”
― Tish Delaney, Before My Actual Heart Breaks

“We get this all the time as women, right? Like, if you make plenty of money but don’t have any kids, you might get called successful. But unless you have kids, no one will ever call you a great woman. You know what I mean?”
― Mieko Kawakami, All The Lovers In The Night

“I stand, my cat stretches himself, ready for the plod around the perimeter. His creaky yawn tells me that he doesn’t have a care in the world except his supper – lucky little rascal.”
― Tish Delaney, Before My Actual Heart Breaks

“Before concluding this Chapter, I request the readers to leave out the various hindrances viz. indolence, sleep, wandering of mind, attachments to senses, etc... and turn their whole and undivided attention to these stories of Sai Baba.”
― Govind Raghunath Dabholkar, Shri Sai Satcharitra: The Wonderful Life and Teachings of Shirdi Sai Baba