Sonya

“Often I lose myself in the constellation of my own ideas, forever searching for point of illumination. But no matter where I look, I find you, shinning and bright, offering me what ever it is I seek, you are my one single star. My sun, my moon, my guide and direction, I know as long as I have you, I'll never lose my way. Even if I can not touch you, I know I will see you, feel you, from anywhere. If I need you I know where to find you”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“Always somewhere there was light, and, though transient, it flashed all the more brilliantly because of the surrounding dark.”
― Vaddey Ratner

“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

“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