Urvashi Yadav

“Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words. In a world of asynchronous communication, where we are so often buried in our screens, our gaze rooted to the rectangular objects buzzing in our hands, our attention consumed by ephemera, stop and experience this dialogue with my young departed colleague, now ageless and extant in memory. Listen to Paul. In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back. Therein lies his message. I got it. I hope you experience it, too. It is a gift. Let me not stand between you and Paul.”
― Abraham Verghese, When Breath Becomes Air

“If we dig deep enough, we can find a way to blame ourselves for anything.”
― Madeline Freeman, Christmas in Clearwater: A Clearwater Witches Tale

“The two hours of happiness for the rest of the troubled hours in the day isn’t a good trade-off. Not when I know how this thing would eventually end. We both know. There is no point of living in a dream world. And I had to make my choices.”
― Ravinder Singh, This Love that Feels So Right...

“Over the dinner, he tried to thank Harold again, but every time he tried, Harold stopped him with increasing impatience. "Has anyone ever told you that sometimes you just need to accept things, Jude?" he finally asked.
"You said to never just accept anything," he reminded Harold.
"That's in the classroom and in the courtroom," Harold said. "Not in life. You see Jude, in life, sometimes nice things happen to good people. You don't need to worry- they don't happen as often as they should. But when they do, it's up to the good people to just say 'thank you,' and move on, and maybe consider that the person who's doing the nice thing gets a bang out of it as well, and really isn't in the mood to hear all the reasons that the person for whom he's done the nice thing doesn't think he deserves it or isn't worthy of it." p113”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life