Priyanka Mogul

“Sometimes she cried, sometimes she laughed, because life could still be funny, even after a tragedy.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

“This is the absolute truth of grief. It is never linear and it is never proportionate or understandable. Especially to other people. It never happens when it should. It doesn't seem to make sense to anyone else.”
― Nikesh Shukla, Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home

“As children we see happiness as a thing. A toy train sticking out of a basket or the plastic film around a slice of cake. or a photograph of a scene in which we are at the centre, all eyes on us.

As adults it gets more complicated. Happiness is success, work, a man or a woman. All vague, laborious things. Whether it's a word we use to describe our lives or not, it is mostly just that, a word.

Childhood taught us something different about happiness, Yui thought, that all you needed to do was reach out your hand in the right direction and you could grasp it.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World

“Time may pass, but the memory of the people we've loved doesn't grow old. It is only we who age.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Box at the Edge of the World