Navraj

“Grown-ups are not good at masking their
concerns, although they can hide their delight and curiosity surprisingly
well. Whereas with children it is the other way round. Children can tactfully
mute their anxiety and conceal their sorrow, but will struggle not to express
their excitement. That is what growing up means, in some simple way:
learning to repress all expressions of pure happiness and joy.”
― Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“A sweetly smiling Communist lady in Kerala worked hard in the rice fields all day and then came home to her much older husband, who sat on the veranda rolling beedis for money. "Since I got married," she said, still smiling, and well within her husband's earshot, "I have never had one day of joy.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“Grown-ups are not good at masking their
concerns, although they can hide their delight and curiosity surprisingly
well. Whereas with children it is the other way round. Children can tactfully
mute their anxiety and conceal their sorrow, but will struggle not to express
their excitement. That is what growing up means, in some simple way:
learning to repress all expressions of pure happiness and joy.”
― Shafak Elif, There Are Rivers in the Sky

“Grace to live at all—none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!