A History of Burning Quotes

“What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Жодне прощання не проходить безслідно; завжди є жертви й побічні наслідки.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Болісне розставання не змінює любові, що йому передувала...”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Запізнення — це не дуже перспективний початок.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“За своє життя я бачила достатньо змін.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Вона знала, що це природний плин речей - виростати, від'їздити. Але відчувалося це як щось максимально неприродне.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“- Усі ми народилися там, де судилося, - одного разу промурмотіла вона. - Ми не контролюємо того, як приходимо у світ. Але можемо обрати, як підемо з нього.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Beyond them, the tide continues. The water shifts the sand, reassembles the shells, sucks the stones to pebbles, The waves break and mend, break and mend. A reminder, as they stand together, that what the water takes, it returns.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“How the leaving was protection, a kind of survival. How sometimes, holding on required letting go.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“A painful goodbye doesn't change the love that precedes it, she thought to say.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“They saw this and thought she was okay, she was grieving, moving forward. They thought she was simmering, cooling. But they didn't know. They couldn't see. That it didn't mater. That already, she was sitting on fire.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“And in her eyes he saw the reflection of his own, the fear and the fire, the unrelenting life in her that he had first admired. How deeply she believed in people's goodness; how deeply he believed in hers. He knew, then, that he would bend to her, until the end: she had always been the stronger half.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“His daughters were bright and full of life, and the love he felt for them so sharp that he couldn't imagine any greater connection with a boy.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“But there was no balance, no restitution. One would never heal the other. There was merely loss alongside love.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“...each night she went to sleep feeling a little more hollow, as if a part of her were leaking into the dark sea. In that untethered space she felt another self flickering inside her, splintering apart.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“Rajni backed away until she could no longer see him, holding herself apart, knowing that love, like fire, needed oxygen to survive.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning

“What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, again and again.”
― Janika Oza, A History of Burning