Yashvi

“Pretend you're a kid again and you don't even know what's good. Just try for the sake of trying. For the sake of having fun.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

“And so there I was where so many young women were, trying to locate ourselves somewhere between being disdained or shut out for being unattractive and being menaced or resented for being attractive, to hover between two zones of punishment in space that was itself so thin that perhaps it never existed, trying to find some impossible balance of being desirable to those we desired and being safe from those we did not.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence

“Memories tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, it to remind us how to live" -Leigh”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After

“Maybe that's where all the other colours are hiding - in a dimenson of the world we just can't see, between our sky and the rest of the universe.”
― Emily X.R. Pan, The Astonishing Color of After