Pushpa Jhawar

“The past is like the Gran Cavallo and you can’t fix the Gran Cavallo, right? I mean, sure, who doesn’t fantasize about drawing in the rest of the horse, and maybe the sky around the horse. But what would the painting be worth then? Absolutely nothing. So it is what it is. Imperfect, unfinished, forever. We just have to move on, call it a masterpiece, even if it’s not, and start working on a new goddamned painting.” “I suppose I didn’t realize that’s what it would feel like getting older,” Phoebe confesses.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“There are no compelling reasons for matrimony,” Jacob admits. “Getting married is something you do despite compelling reasons.”
― Richard Russo, Straight Man

“Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss.”
― Lily King, Five Tuesdays in Winter

“I had spent a lifetime hating my appearance in the present and then appreciating it in retrospect.”
― Matt Haig, The Life Impossible