Akanksha

“There is no secret, Tom, or else there are hundreds of them, and none of them interesting enough for you. The secret is that we’re a family, we’re just an ordinary family, with ordinary unhappiness like yours.”
― Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

“She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of substance and note.”
― Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

“But still, they tried. The trying would be the life's work, they both understood this, and there would be no day when they would celebrate a resolution.”
― Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

“We matter greatly and not at all. To reach some pinnacle of human achievement only to discover that your achievements are next to nothing and that to understand this is the greatest achievement of any life, which itself is nothing, and also much more than everything. Some metal separates us from the void; death is so close. Life is everywhere, everywhere.sm”
― Samantha Harvey, Orbital