Reema Singh

“You have to open a lot of oysters before you find a pearl.”
― María Celeste Arrarás, Selena's Secret: The Revealing Story Behind Her Tragic Death

“New beginnings are usually welcome. But being a beginner? Not so much. We want our circumstances to change, to start again, to be brand-new. But when they change, we often don’t give ourselves permission to be new within them. Instead, we want to rush ahead to mastery. We think we ought to know how to navigate the newness, especially if it’s something we wanted, something we prayed for, waited for, asked for, or planned.”
― Emily P. Freeman, The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

“Food comforts, heals, and is the only lover I will ever take.”
― Roselle Lim, Natalie Tan's Book of Luck & Fortune

“We could love, I realized, without the promise of exclusivity that one had been raised on. And there was no shame or guilt in that, it was just the way the human heart was, four-chambered, with an infinite capacity to contain others, more than it could contain itself.”
― Kiran Manral, More Things in Heaven and Earth