Rashmi

“One of the biggest lies of parenting is that the parents are always right. The second lie is that it is the children’s responsibility to make their parents happy when they grow up.”
― Natasha Badhwar, Immortal for a Moment: Small Answers to Big Questions About Life, Love and Letting Go

“Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You

“Shame had a way of multiplying when other people saw it. It made you naked and gross.”
― Sonali Dev, Recipe for Persuasion

“Every parent will take five minutes in the car outside the house from time to time, just sitting there. Just breathing and gathering the strength to head back inside to all of their responsibilities. The suffocating expectation of being good, coping. Every parent will take ten seconds in the stairwell occasionally, key in hand, not putting it in the lock.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime