Sonya

“I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”
― Emery Allen

“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost innocence, and in the shadow it casts over our present world, we begin to understand what we only intuited in our naivete-that while all else may vanish, love is our one eternity.”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan