Divyanshi Dash

“I want to go up to that person and ask her how she did it! But the you of the present is looking at your life and past as if you’re a failure. When in truth, from the perspective of a younger you, you’re the very picture of success.”
― Baek Sehee, I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further Conversations with My Psychiatrist

“Still. Something is missing. Something is off. So, how fucking spoiled am I, then? How fucking broken? What is wrong with me that I can have everything I could ever want and have ever asked for and still wake up in the morning feeling like every day is a slog?”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“What eight things never have their fill of what eight things?”
“The ocean, of water from the rivers; the fire, of fuel; the woman, of sexual pleasure; the raja, of dominion; the rich man, of wealth; the learned man, of knowledge; the foolish man, of folly; the tyrant, of oppression.”
― Intizar Husain, Basti

“Suddenly there were hands that we didn’t recognize, and we became strangers.”
― Andrés Barba, Such Small Hands