Praniya

“This is trouble with you. You think you want, you don't think you want–always back and forth. Me, when I want, it is with whole heart. I look at wanted thing with eyes straight on. But you! Neither here nor there. Your looking always crooked, from side of eye. It has no power to hold. So wanted thing, it slip away from you.”
― Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats

“Love to him would have felt more like the pain of longing rather than joying union”
― Philippa Perry, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]

“Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself.”
― Molly McCully Brown, Places I've Taken My Body: Essays

“If the world had a mind to harm it would do so the prepared and unprepared equally”
― Yiyun Li, Wednesday's Child: Stories