Scion of Ikshvaku (Ram Chandra, #1)

by Amish Tripathi

Khalil Gibran said that parents are like a bow, And children like arrows. The more the bow bends and stretches, the farther the arrow flies. I fly, not because I am special, but because they stretched for me.

She has that something, like the thread in a crystal-bead necklace. She holds it all together.

I have become alive. You have made me alive.