Raghav

“The truth was dawning on me of how terrifying it was not to be numb, but to be aware, to have facts, retain facts, be adult.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“According to the police, of course, our community was a rogue community. It was we who were the enemy, we who were the terrorists, the civilian terrorists, the associates of terrorists or simply individuals suspected of being but not yet discovered to be terrorists. That being the case, and understood by both parties to be the case, the only time you’d call the police in my area would be if you were going to shoot them, and naturally they would know this and so wouldn’t come.”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realize we don't want to hold it together.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography