Pallavi Barnwal

“Speaking two languages may seem a relative affluence, but more often it entails the problems of maintaining a second establishment even though your body can be in one place at a time. When I return to Urdu, I feel shocked at my own neglect of a space so intimate to me: like relearning the proportions of a once-familiar room, it takes me by surprise to recollect that I need not feel grief, I can eat grief; that I need not bury my mother but instead can offer her into the earth, for I am in Urdu now.”
― Sara Suleri, Meatless Days

“I'm too weak to be as angry as I should be. I'd end up destroying myself completely if I were, evaporating oceans and burning forests. I'll just bury it under layers of solidifying lava that is the result of small outbursts that I couldn't help but release when the energy at my core became too much to bear.”
― Moonshine Noire

“When it is becomes impossible to go back to normal ,we have to create a new normal and adjust to it.”
― Sabine Shah

“Happiness is a consolation for those who cannot orgasm yet … or anymore.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana