Aliya

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.”
― Ha Jin

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Anne Carson (Translator), Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face