Naima Subba

“But these were days of self-fulfillment, where settling for something that was not quite your first choice of a life seemed weak-willed and ignoble. Somewhere, surrendering to what seemed to be your fate had changed from being dignified to being a sign of your own cowardice. There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, and that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan-the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past- and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run.
In the end, I ran.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner