Shreyes

“If you know the question, you know half.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“We want everything to be permanent—relationships, love, beauty, youth, happiness. But the truth is permanence is an illusion, and like everything else in life happiness also comes and goes. Trying to be happy forever is like trying to stop water from slipping through your fingers. It’s not possible, and the only way forward is to realize and accept it.”
― Shaheen Bhatt, I've never been (Un)happier

“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous