Drashti Patel

“Sometimes you'll mistake need for love. Be careful”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Half-Blood

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all others.”
― Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

“there is nothing generic about a human life. When I was little, to get to my bus stop, I had to cross a field that had so much snow my parents fitted me with ski pants and knee-high thermal boots that were toasty to forty degrees below zero. I am excellent in the stern of a canoe, but I never got the hang of riding a bike with no hands. I have seen the northern lights because my parents always woke up the whole house when the night sky was painted with color. I love the smell of clover and chamomile because my sister and I used to pick both on the way home from swimming lessons. I spent weeks of my childhood riding around on my bike saving drowning worms after a heavy rain. My hair is my favorite feature even though it’s too heavy for most ponytails, and I still can’t parallel park. There is no life in general. Each day has been a collection of trivial details—little intimacies and jokes and screw-ups and realizations.”
― Kate Bowler

“Surrender
"Life is unstable because it is life. But I am steady.”
― Kate Bowler, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved