Suhrita

“I'm sorry I keep saying How are you? when I really mean Are you happy?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“couldn’t locate the specific feeling I’d had the last time we talked. I thought for a few hours after I cried in the bathroom that I would call her and I would tell her I loved her. But I did not trust calling her. I was afraid that if I called her, she would talk and it would be too hard for me to love her after that.”
― Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

“The lesson I learnt without knowing it: never make demigods of people you adore. Never. They will only disappoint you in the long run.”
― Vivek Tejuja, So Now You Know: A Memoir of Growing Up Gay in India

“It’s true what they say: life does go on and joy does return, and often it’s in the most unexpected of places,’ she continues, ‘but you never get over losing someone; you just get better at coping with it.”
― Alexandra Potter, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up