Varsha

“Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed