Priyanka Gupta

“To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.”
― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites

“A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb. The nurse had chosen the forgetting way. Yet, as she stood there, she knew that years later she would be haunted by the sorrow in the face of that starveling child and that she would wish bitterly that she had said a comforting word then and done something towards the saving of her immortal soul. She had the knowledge that she was small but she lacked the courage to be otherwise.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin’ we’re goin’ one place and we end up another. But that’s okay. The important thing is to start.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy

“When everything you dreamed of seems like its just too awfully far
And the whispered voice of doubt
Has been ingrained in who you are
Do not curse the distance
For it provides the time to grow
What would be the point of dreams
If you could reach them in one go!”
― E.H