Kritika Gupta

“they leave
and act like it never happened
they come back
and act like they never left”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“A professor's decks are never clear: there will always be barnacles to scrape, cannons to polish, and scurvy-stricken grad students to free from the brig.”
― Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.”
― Stephen King