Disha

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Life can be reset, it seems to say; time can be separated. But that logic appears to me as unlikely as traveling to another place to become a different person. Altered sceneries are at best distractions, or else new settings for old habits. What one carries from one point to another, geographically or temporally, is one’s self. Even the most inconsistent person is consistently himself.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life

“The word immune (from the Latin immunis, in- + munia, services, obligations) is among my favorites in the English language, the possession of immunity—to illnesses, to follies, to love and loneliness and troubling thoughts and unalleviated pains—a trait that I have desired for my characters and myself, knowing all the while the futility of such a wish. Only the lifeless can be immune to life.”
― Yiyun Li, Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life