Rupesh

“If I were a different kind of person, I might say that this whole incident is a metaphor for life in general: things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“He learned not to mind the silences.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Literary Classic Set Between India and New England

“Do you like being alone?” he asked. “No. No one likes being alone. But I’ve learned how to live with it.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Everyone goes through a period of traviamento—when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name