10 Quotes by Janice Pariat

Because life is like that, isn't it? One cannot stop its ebb and flow. You step into the current and whatever's in your path will cross you and touch you and sometimes stay.

You have a heart as open as the sky. It is rare, and i am touched.

The ones we pretend to ignore are the ones we’re most aware of.

Because life is like that, isn’t it? One cannot stop its ebb and flow. You step into the current and whatever’s in your path will cross you and touch you and sometimes stay.

And things will mellow. And all this love will turn to friendship tinged forever. After that, there will be only accidental meetings, a stray email, a long-lost text.

As though I am oriented only by your presence, or your absence. You are my north.

Look... how she’s allowed some sky to filter through the branches... That’s how it is, isn’t it? A tree is patchy. There are gaps between the leaves...

I am struck, at this moment, by how precisely we know how to hurt the ones we love.

I grow jealous of your memories because those are times in your life i will never be a part of, and i imagine them large and exuberant in your head.