Aishwarya Nair

“At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Adults, light-years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See