Urmila

“When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club

“What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?”
― Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou