Rashmi P. Menon > Rashmi's Quotes

“I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.”
― Nadine Gordimer, The House Gun

“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don’t know what to do with it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Like the Flowing River

“I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.”
― William Trevor

“I have learned that the universe does not often bend itself to my will. It does, however, always rearrange itself in my favor.”
― Moxie Malone

“Multiple high-pitched growls emanated from the shadows. The hunters were now the hunted.”
― Rashmi Menon, Immortal Fears

“Sometimes, to capture a predator, we need to become prey.”
― Rashmi Menon, Immortal Fears

“Some truths only tragedy can teach. The first one I learned is that when people acknowledge your pain, they want your pain to acknowledge them back. They need to witness it in real time, or else you're not doing your part.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Growing up Black in the South, it’s pretty common to find yourself in old places that just… weren’t made for you. Maybe it’s a building, a historic district, or a street. Some space that was originally built for white people and white people only, and you just have to hold that knowledge while going about your business.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“How does this boy navigate my emotions like a seasonal sailor, finding the clear skies and bringing them closer, when all I seem able to do is hold fast to the storms?”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Don’t make your life about the loss. Make it about the love.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“I recognize that sound. It's the sound of holding on to a cliff by the edge of your nails. The sound of barely containing a pain so immense that to look at it, to raise your own flesh and examine what's beneath, is to risk falling into a darkness you know you'll never escape.”
― Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

“Each thinking mind is a political mind.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People