Prashant

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“He’d always wondered what the inside of the doll might look like. For some reason, he’d thought the cotton would be brown.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men