Javeria

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“All transformation appears to be motivated by desperation and emergency.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

“Eventually he begins to practice his new signature in the margins of the paper. He tries it in various styles, his hand unaccustomed to the angles of the N, the dotting of the two i's. He wonders how many times he has written his old name, at the top of how many tests and quizzes, how many homework assignments, how many yearbook inscriptions to friends. How many times does a person write his name in a lifetime - a million? Two million?”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things