The Living Quotes

“(...) I become callous and think I don’t need her approval. That’s when she stops paying me attention, and I suffocate. It’s not that she stops talking, or stops cooking, nothing obvious. She doesn’t sound angry or depressed. I just stop existing. (...) In this way she never gets whatever it is she needs; she is always brought back to earth (...) to my inadequacies (...) I do it to her every time. And then I breathe again, and am comforted, and insensitive, as before.”
― Anjali Joseph, The Living

“When I’m tired things are clear. It takes the edge off. I feel like a saint in a stained-glass window, everything coming to me in a halo, revelations.”
― Anjali Joseph, The Living