Jhuma Khan

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“We're meant to go. We're not meant to stay forever.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“We stand in shit but let us not drown in it.”
― Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz