“Trauma doesn’t decrease with company, but it does grow easier to work through when you know someone else understands.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“Most people never live, because they’re afraid of losing the years they have left…years that also will be spent not living. The irony of a cautious existence.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“Do not let memory chase you… Enjoy memories, yes, but don’t be a slave to who you wish you once had been. Those memories aren’t alive. You are.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
“She seemed sorry in the same way a tank commander might be apologetic after destroying your house. He might be in the wrong. But he was still in a tank.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“I only stare," he said. "when I see something too beautiful for my eyes to take in at once.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Shadhir’s 2025 Year in Books
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