Madhuri (Mads)

“Who could love a coward?' She had once heard a woman say. Laodamia knew the answer. Someone for whom the alternative is loving a corpse.”
― Natalie Haynes, A Thousand Ships

“Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts”
― Molly Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea

“To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.”
― Miri Yū , Tokyo Ueno Station

“My dad once told me it’s best to think of each story as a journey. Each sentence, even each word, is a step toward your destination, and you have to be careful where you step as a storyteller because the people are stepping after you. You want to make sure they’re going where you want them to go, because you’re carving a path together.”
― Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell