Sameer Vasta

“Then one day, you learned that rapture could also mean blissful happiness, and you understood, fully, that it is important to live in unyielding fear with a smile on your face.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

“I've missed you," he says.

I've missed myself, you want to say, but you don't.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“Nonstalgia (noun) The unsettling sensation that you are never be able to fully access the past; that once you are departed from an event, some essential quality of it is lost forever. A reminder to remember: just because the sharpness of the sadness has faded does not mean that it was not, once, terrible. It means only that time and space, creatures of infinite girth and tenderness, have stepped between the two of you, and they are keeping you safe as they were once unable to.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House