Kavya Verma

“Everyone here wants so badly to be watched, noticed. And the upside is that the desire to be watched is a blindfold.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Be the person you needed when you were younger.”
― Ayesha Siddiqi

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
― Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal